marital breakups

NOT DIVORCED BUT GRADUATING FROM MARRIAGE

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Shojiro Shindo and his wife Kimiko on a trip to Nagasaki Prefecture in 2013 I learned a new word today – ‘sotsukon‘. It’s a Japanese word that means ‘graduation from marriage’. (Read the interview with Shojiro, 71. He and his wife Kimiko, 69, are happy with their ‘sotsukon’. The Japan News) When the children have grown […]

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MOTHER-IN-LAW OR MONSTER-IN-LAW?

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A report in The Star yesterday probably had many mothers-in-law either squirming with guilt or fuming with anger. It published the results of a study undertaken in 2004 by the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN) that listed “meddlesome in-laws” as the number one cause of marital breakups in Malaysia. Mothers-in-law (MIL) have long

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