so you can even live at one apartment but your separated??

so do you mean after six month of separation.. couple are divorced automatically?

no, it means the divorce process can take no longer than six months

yes, legally seperated if your accounts and your bills are kept seperate,,,

like roommates

what about you.. you can date a man who is in separation period..

Hi sweet

I would not date anyone that is only 'separated', until they are divorced nothing is final regarding their marriage in my opinion. Some people do reconcile and get back together in their marriage, even after starting another relationship with someone else.

The best way to learn this difference is to get out of HER bed and answer HER front door that someone is banging on at four in the morning!

I'm laughing but it's true!

It isn't the LABEL that makes the person. Even when it's approved by a bunch of lawyers. If a person has no sense of self, or worse, no sense of personal honor, it wont matter whether they can legally call themselves divorced, or anything else. They will still make your life unpleasant.

"Separated" can be a legal term, but as some have pointed out, there's nothing stopping someone from claiming to be legally separated, when they are nothing of the kind. It's not even against the law to claim to be divorced when you aren't, as long as you don't do so under oath.

Just don't think you're safe from liars and self-deluded people, just because they have some label you prefer.

Just imagine getting up off the ground with someone else's tire tracks across your face: will it make you happier if you can say "At least that one was legally single! I would really be bad off if they were only separated!"

Hello singel hi

you are true brother..

if marriage is lasting.. why people divorce..?

if marriage is lasting.. why people divorce..?

Separated is the coming of a divorce. Just went thru it myself:( and boy has it taken time and patients to get over. But here I am better than I was. Im the 2.0 of myself now:)

I guess, that's primarily because 'they' didn't get married (in the true sense of the term) in the first place. It was merely a 'paper-work' formality!

Marriage is the intimate union and equal partnership of a man and a woman. It comes to us from the hand of God, who created male and female in his image, so that they might become one body and might be fertile and multiply (See Genesis chapters 1 and 2). Though man and woman are equal as God's children, they are created with important differences that allow them to give themselves and to receive the other as a gift.


Marriage is both a natural institution and a sacred union because it is rooted in the divine plan of creation. In addition, the Catholic Church teaches that the valid marriage between two baptized Christians is also a sacrament – a saving reality and a symbol of Christ's love for his church (See Ephesians 5:25-33). In every marriage the spouses make a contract with each other. In a sacramental marriage the couple also enters into a covenant in which their love is sealed and strengthened by God's love.


The free consent of the spouses makes a marriage. From this consent and from the sexual consummation of marriage a special bond arises between husband and wife. This bond is lifelong and exclusive. The marriage bond has been established by God and so it cannot be dissolved.


In the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, the priest or deacon, the two official witnesses, and the congregation all witness the exchange of consent by the couple who themselves are considered to be the ministers of the sacrament. In the Eastern Churches the sacrament is conferred by the priest's blessing after receiving the couple's consent.


Permanency, exclusivity, and faithfulness are essential to marriage because they foster and protect the two equal purposes of marriage. These two purposes are growth in mutual love between the spouses and the generation and education of children (procreative).


The mutual love of a married couple should always be open to new life. This openness is expressed powerfully in the sexual union of husband and wife. The power to create a child with God is at the heart of what spouses share with each other in sexual intercourse. Mutual love includes the mutual gift of fertility. Couples who are not able to conceive or who are beyond their child-bearing years can still express openness to life. They can share their generative love with grandchildren, other children and families, and the wider community.


As a result of their baptism, all Christians are called to a life of holiness. This divine calling, or vocation, can be lived in marriage, or in the single life, or in the priesthood or consecrated (religious) life. No one vocation is superior to or inferior to another. Each one involves a specific kind of commitment that flows from one's gifts and is further strengthened by God's grace. All vocations make a unique contribution to the life and mission of the Church.


The family arises from marriage. Parents, children, and family members form what is called a domestic church or church of the home. This is the primary unit of the Church – the place where the Church lives in the daily love, care, hospitality, sacrifice, forgiveness, prayer and faith of ordinary families.

that is a good seminar of marriage.. God bless you...