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The number of women who are facing a transition such as “wife” to “divorcee” or “single woman” to “partner” has risen over recent years, which can be the cause of adjustment issues and challenges regardless of the overall positive value of the role change itself. A Pew Research Study indicated that the divorce rate for people fifty and over has climbed dramatically in the past decade (Stepler, 2017). For every one thousand married persons who are fifty or older, ten divorced in 2015; this is exactly twice the number who divorced in the same age group in 1990. While the reasons for divorce vary greatly across relationships (Crowley, 2017), simplified divorce procedures and lengthened lifespans may play a role in their frequency.