Marriage is a bonding between two individuals for love and companionship with a lifelong commitment that leads to security, financial stability as well as legal rights and benefits extended to the progeny. When mutual love, affection, compassion, and commitment are lost, it may lead to torture, insecurity, and instability. Thereby this most beautiful relationship becomes suffocating and a heavy burden to carry on for a lifetime. In such a situation, counseling or mediation helps some couples, while others need in-dependency which is mostly decided in court. No two divorces are the same. The painfulness of the process depends on the intensity of differences between the partners and their personality types. Here is a description of the types of divorce in the US. Fault Divorce In a fault divorce, a partner blames or proves that the spouse was at fault for the marriage to break down. If the court finds that he or she is at no fault then the divorce will not be granted and they will ...