The “Silent Divorce” of the Modern Family: Why Shrinking Family Time is Breaking Our Hearts (And Our Marriages)

It doesn’t happen with a dramatic argument or a tearful conversation. There’s no announcement, no decision made. It happens slowly, quietly — in the accumulated hours of separate screens, parallel schedules, and conversations that never quite happen. Researchers and family therapists have started calling it the “silent divorce”: a gradual emotional and relational disconnection that […]