Up there with death and taxes, divorce is the last topic most people want to talk about. After all, ending a marriage can launch you into painful feelings of failure, disappointment, stress, and regret. While most people do recover from a divorce, the process can get a toll in your fitness as you face an expensive and lengthy legal process, move out of your home, renegotiate your situation due to the fact good co-mother (if you have kids), divide up your social network, and rebuild your sense of self without your partner.

While the overall divorce rate fell 18% from 2008 to 2016, divorce remains an everyday reality: About 40% of marriages end in dissolution, and around 1 million couples cut the cord every year, per a 2015 study for the Psychosomatic Medicine.