Being a parent is a wonderful experience, but also a bewildering one. I have two children, and although I try to give them the best of myself, I often feel that I'm not raising them with the same confidence and ease that my parents had when they raised me. They seemed to know exactly how to do it: what limits to set, what freedoms to give, what values ​​to instill. I, on the other hand, have many more doubts.

I often tell myself, "Everything passes." It helps me to remember that nothing lasts forever, neither the good nor the bad. I try to let the bad things take up less of my time, and I live the good things fully. I also realize that many of the things that worry or bother me now are the same things I'll miss later on.

Before separating, Raúl (a fictitious name to maintain his anonymity) saw a lot of potential in dating apps and was eager to try them out. Having had the opportunity, he hasn't used them and is "far from" doing so. He wants to stop spending so many hours in front of his phone and delving into this world is precisely going in the other direction. But the truth is, he hasn't missed them. "I've met people who have interested me and people who have interested me," he says when explaining how he's handled this new situation. He also confesses that being able to experiment has been a "healthy and good motivation" for him.

"Will we go on vacation together knowing that this is no longer what we want?" Raquel Iglesias, vice-dean of the Notarial Association of Catalonia, believes that many couples ask themselves this question before deciding to formally separate. This would explain why July is the month with the most divorces registered in the country's notaries, where this type of amicable separation can be processed quickly.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez had a romance that captured the world's tabloids in the early 2000s. They were the youngest and most successful couple of the moment, and their plans to get married were a cherry on top that no media outlet could resist. The same thing happened with their breakup and the cancellation of their wedding plans. Their extremely complicated schedules and pressure from the press ruined a potential Hollywood wedding that had become a Western fairy tale. That relationship collapsed. took shape again in their twenties, when those young people were no longer so young, but their fame was just as great, if not greater. In 2021, the two stars fell in love again, and in April 2022, they announced that they were engaged to finally carry out what capricious fate had so cruelly prevented them from doing when they were young.

They say there are no breakups more violent than those of great loves. All that trust and deep connection that exists in the most stable and established relationships suddenly turns into a nuclear bomb when that stability ends, as the feeling that emerges is one of betrayal. The person you trusted the most no longer wants to be with you. The emotional collapse is superlative, and the reaction, obviously, will be as well. Surely, this feeling of betrayal will lead one of the two to attack where it hurts the most, which will lead the other to do the same, and thus, an unstoppable spiral of war will begin.

In the United States, when Michelle Obama speaks, the price of bread rises. This, which was already the case when she was first lady, didn't change at all when Jill Biden took over, and even less so now that Melania Trump has become a FLOTUS.first lady of the united states– who can't raise the price of bread when he speaks because he doesn't speak. However, it's also true that Melania doesn't need to do anything to raise the price of things because she already has her husband, who is destined to make everything around him more expensive, to the misfortune of all Americans and the rest of humanity. Fortunately, in this unfortunate context, Michelle Obama remains active in the media, and even if only in a light, does her best to make the people of her country forget for a few moments the spiral of decline that their current president has caused in the United States.

No one prepares you for caring for your partner's children. When falling in love blinds all your senses, you can hardly imagine that, along with that person, other, younger ones will join you who, if all goes well, will end up playing a very important role in your life. It's the beginning of a bumpy road where, through trial and error, those who experience it can experience very contradictory emotions and situations. "Love them as if they were your own... but don't try to be their mother." "You have to be a role model, but setting limits is prohibited" are just some of the phrases that so-called stepparents, or stepparents, as the Association for the Care of Family Diversity prefers to say, must hear.

AJ Alfafara, 46, a Protestant and founder of the Divorce Pilipinas coalition, separated from her husband more than 12 years ago and says she has not seen her son for more than a decade, since he – aged 9 – chose to live with his father, who came from a family with certain conditions. A few months ago, Alfafara, who works as a virtual office assistant and is studying at university, wanted to buy a house, but was told that she needed her husband's signature.

It was already known that Sophie Turner had experienced a complicated period after the end of her relationship with Joe Jonas and the subsequent divorce with two daughters in charge. But until the publication of the interview with Vogue As of this Wednesday, it was not known what the magnitude of the tragedy was, at least with his version of the events. The public ridicule for being a "bad mother" and the story promoted by the media and networks about her predilection for nightlife, which left the care of her daughters and time with her partner, Joe Jonas, in the background - apparently , a family man – has caused him anxiety problems and periods of depression, as he explained in the British magazine.

The Catalan influencer Dulceida has shared with her almost 3,000,000 followers various stories in which she confirms, in tears, a crisis in her marriage. "I'm recording this without much desire to do so, but we have been receiving comments with demands for many days, ugly comments that, at this point, hurt us. We have spoken and we have decided to do it this way", explains Aida Domènech, one of the most followed influencers in Spain. "Alba and I are not going through a good time in our relationship. [...] We've decided to spend this month apart. I'll be in Ibiza and she'll be doing her own thing. We don't know what will happen, I think it's very much our thing and that's why I ask you to please respect us", asks Dulceida, who is very affected by everything she's going through.

Neighbours knocked on Maria Ribas's door looking for advice from a woman who had already split amicably before there was a divorce. Her children, now well into their forties, remember how the dining room at home was occasionally turned into a consulting room for women who wanted to know what they would encounter if they dared to follow in her footsteps. "Back then it wasn't so normal to split or get divorced", says Ribas.