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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Gabriella Pomare as told to Celina Ribeiro

A divorce lawyer on signs of relationship breakdown: ‘One of the biggest red flags – when you no longer argue’

Couple sitting on couch with remote control and smartphone, partial view
‘There’s this stigma around breaking up the family … but I think kids suffer so much worse living in a house where parents aren’t really together,’ says divorce lawyer Gabriella Pomare. Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images

“One of the biggest things I see is ‘quiet quitting’ or ‘silent divorce’.

It’s where you’re living together and you’re just disconnected. So we find ourselves sitting on the couch, one person’s scrolling on their phone the other person’s watching Netflix – there’s no real communication. We probably are, in our mind, separated already but we’re there because of kids and bills and mortgages, and it’s either too hard or too expensive or too scary to actually get separated.

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