An understanding of why break up or divorce hurts can start your healing process in more ways than you may realize. For however brief or long your relationship lasted, you and your partner made a union. You lived jointly.

Now, you face separation. And, whether it was your idea or not, the idea of living separately can be quite daunting. There may be feelings of pain and hurt. And, from pain and hurt it is easy to fall into resentment and anger or depression and loneliness. Instead, understandin...