To legally get rid of the leeching, lazy scumbag you mistakenly married when you were young and naive.

The long way round to buy a house for a women you dont like.

The screw-in' you get, for the screw-in' you got!

When your dad is emotionally abusive and pushes your mom and steals your stuff, and leaves, and your mom is crying all night, and says it's over, and dad gets an apartment and wants you to be with him, but you hate him, and eventually you never talk to him and it's almost like he never even existed?

That's divorce.

A legal seperation of the hearts and assets.

AKA I hate you; it's over; get the fuck out; that is all your shit, the rest is mine, you got too fat, I met someone new.

A word that brings saddness to many and happiness to some.

The legal ending of a marital contract between a man and a woman. A very common occurance in the US since the 1960s.
Often the result of either one or both partner's utter refusal to communicate with each other when something is wrong, and letting problems build, and seething under the surface until one of the parties, gives up and leaves. This leaves the "left" spouse in complete confusion because of the lack of communication, they did not see it coming. Becoming even more prevalent since the advent of internet personal sites and chat rooms. One partner after blindly thinking that the person he is chatting with actually resembles Angelina Jolie, decides that the grass is greener on the other side. The biggest victims of this epidemic are actually children who quickly develop a mistrust of the opposite sex.