65 Divorce Quotes That Make Ending A Marriage a Little Easier Our Happy Divorce

65 Divorce Quotes That Make Ending a Marriage Easier

Our Happy Divorce Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Ending a marriage isn’t an easy decision. But if you can look for the light at the end of the tunnel and focus on the positive things a divorce can bring to your life, coping with the changes will be easier. When you need encouragement for co-parenting, step-parenting, divorce or your blended family, find one of these divorce quotes that resonates with you and let it be your guiding light.

15 Quotes About Divorce

“There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart..” – C. Joybell C.
“When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at least, begun to.” – Helen Rowland
“When people divorce, it’s always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.” – Monica Bellucci
There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possible happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don’t have time for hate or negativity in my life. There’s no room for it. – Reese Witherspoon
“Life is too short to be in relationships where you feel this isn’t fully right or somebody doesn’t have your back, or somebody doesn’t fully value you. Don’t be afraid to feel your independence if things aren’t right.” – Anna Faris
“Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.”- Ashton Kutcher
“I don’t think anybody who’s ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure. Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through. And I’m growing through it. ” – Sharon Stone
“I cannot be driven by the optics of this. I cannot let anger or hurt be my engine. I need to move with the big picture always on my mind, and the kids first and foremost.”- Jennifer Garner
“Divorce sucks. But at the end of the day, we’ve got a great kid who’s got two parents who love him very much. And we’re finding a way to navigate this while still remaining friends and still being kind to one another.” – Chris Pratt
“People are like, ‘How do you get through this?’ I didn’t run away from my feelings. I let myself cry. I let myself grieve. This is one of those situations where I will see the light.” – Jenna Dewan
“Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain, but you come out of it.” – Ryan Reynolds
“I feel, whether you’re famous or not, transitions are scary for anybody. I feel like change is always scary, but that’s only because transition for anyone is new and you wonder how things are going to go.” – Naomi Watts
“You can come at it very aggressively and blame and blame. Or you can put yourself in the garage, so to speak. Take yourself apart and clean off the bits. Reassemble.” – Chris Martin
“The good thing about getting divorced young—if there is a good thing—is that it makes you realize there’s no schedule in life. It blasts you wide open and frees you to be honest with yourself.” – Olivia Wilde
“Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.” – Michael Crawford

15 Divorce Quotes About Step-Parenting

“Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures. “ – Morris Gleitzman
“A healthy stepmother knows that somedays she’s a stagehand, somedays she’s the leading lady and somedays she’s the audience… and she plays each role with style and grace.” – Unknown
“Stepparents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a child’s life experience.” – Azriel Johnson
“We aren’t ‘step,’ we aren’t half,’ we’re just family.” – Unknown
“A stepparent is so much more than just a parent; they made the choice to love when they didn’t have to.” – Unknown
“A stepparent is a truly amazing person. They made a choice to love another’s child as their own.” – Unknown
“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a stepdad.”- Unknown
“Remember why you chose to come together in the first place — the love that you have for your partner. Your partner’s children are an extension of them and this makes them just as important to your happiness.” – Beth Huber
“It’s not flesh and blood but the heart that makes us father and son.” – Johann Schiller
“Stepparent is someone who bravely took the position of the hardest job in the world.” – Unknown
“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like everyone else to love them.” – Leigh Anne Tuohy
“Who cares if another woman or man loves your child, plays with your child, or builds a healthy relationship with your child — either way your child is benefiting.” – Jessica James
“The only steps in this house are the stair steps and the only half in this house is the half & half creamer.”- Al Hodson
“A child cannot have too many people who love them and want to help them succeed.” – Unknown
“It’s not flesh and blood but the heart that makes us father and son.” – Johann Schiller

15 Divorce Quotes about Co-Parenting

“I took my time with everything and I think that was the best for me and for Luca. And watching what you say is key, key, key.” – Hilary Duff
“At the end of the day, you’ve got to be a little selfless. You have to say ‘It’s not about us.’” – Nick Cannon
“You have to get to that point as a divorced parent, as any parent, where you’re not putting yourself first. You want the kids’ experience to be its own and not like, ‘Well, I need to have my time!’ We have been very good about that.” – Ryan Phillippe
“It really is about the tone you set. And you can talk until you’re blue in the face, but kids watch what you do every single day of your life, all day long, and that behavior and that example and that love and community and honesty is just, I think, what’s making everything feel safe for my kids. – Drew Berrymore
“To live in the now. You have to forgive. That was then, this is now. You don’t have to hold on to anything. You are not doing your children any service. Bring as much peace and harmony to their life as you can.” – Paula Patton
“People come into your life for a reason and relationships can change and just because we aren’t living together, doesn’t mean you can’t love each other. We had to learn that we had to be able to move forward with love and respect.” – Peter Facinelli
“We’re parents and we’re in it for our kid, and that’s made it really easy.” – Pete Wentz
“We may not be a traditional family on paper but we are a family and I tell her that families come in all shapes and sizes, but [a family is] love and I see her really flourishing because she sees two people treating each other with respect.” – Angela Kinsey
“You have to keep discussing what’s going on because as the children grow older, the rules need to be renegotiated” – Kourtney Kardashian
“We’re doing our very best and we’re putting our kids first and that’s how we’re focusing on our day-to-day lives and we don’t know what the future’s going to hold, but each step that we take is one where we prioritize our children and everything else comes second.” – Ben Affleck
“Co-parenting is not a competition. It’s a collaboration of two homes working together with the best interest of the child at heart. Work for your kids not against them.” – Anne Brown
“Divorce isn’t the child’s fault. Don’t say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you’re really just hurting the child.” – Valerie Bertinelli
“This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face – learning to love the other parent is enough to make the child first.” – Iyanla Vanzant
“The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.” – Jane Blaustone
“Co-parenting is not a competition. It’s a collaboration of two homes working together with the best interest of the child at heart. Work for your kids not against them.” – Anne Brown

15 Quotes About Family

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” – Jane Howard
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
“A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.” – Brad Pitt
“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
“There’s no road map on how to raise a family: it’s always an enormous negotiation.” – Meryl Streep
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” – Marge Kennedy
“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” – Peter Buffett
“What’s a home and family for if it’s not the center of one’s life?” – Loretta Young
“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct.”- Jodi Picoult
“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” – Paul Pearsall
“When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.” – Barbara Bush
“Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” – J.K. Rowling
“The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements but rather with the things we do for the people we love and esteem.” – Walt Disney
“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” – Brad Henry

5 Quotes About a Happy Divorce

Ben Heldfond and Nikki DeBartolo hope their story can help inspire other families to build stronger relationships and work as co-parents even after a marriage ends. Here are some divorce quotes they have built their happy divorce around:

“Despite the odds, we orchestrated a divorce that made us and everyone we love happier and healthier.” – Ben Heldfond and Nikki DeBartolo
“I knew that nothing mattered more to Nikki and me than our son’s happiness, health, and well-being and that we’d do anything to make sure divorce didn’t hurt him” – Ben Heldfond, Our Happy Divorce
“Nikki and I eventually went from being co-parents to real friends…We are raising a family together.” – Nadia Heldfond, Ben’s wife
“Our blended family is at our best all together, when our love and patience and interest and passion for each other and this life come out in the most beautiful ways.”- Nikki DeBartolo
“We carefully framed every topic we discussed through that one question: What’s best for Asher? It took on a variety of forms—What divorce method will be the least difficult for Asher? What custody arrangement will make Asher the happiest? What financial arrangement will provide best for Asher? What interpersonal relationship do we need to build to create the healthiest atmosphere for Asher? The answers to those questions were our answers, and the highest truth we needed.” – Nikki DeBartolo

Your family may change through divorce, but your commitment as a parent doesn’t have to waver. Use these divorce quotes when you need a reminder to work towards a healthy divorce. Continue to collaborate with your co-parent, work together as partners to do what’s best for the kids and open your heart to the new experiences that divorce brings into your life.

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