Shiftheads - Dr Laurie: Would You Choose Your Partner Again Today?

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Mar 21, 2026 · 18m

Silver split divorces are rising faster than any other age group and the moment most couples point to is the same one. The kids leave. The house goes quiet. And in that quiet, a question shows up that was never there before. Not an emergency. Just a question that does not go away on its own.

In the 1990s, roughly one in nine or ten divorces involved couples over 50. Now it is one in four. Something shifted, and it was not that marriages got worse. It was that financial independence gave people a choice they did not previously have, and they started making it. Women especially.

Rediscovering…