But that same law also causes a lot of pain for men with refugee children. Their wives or ex-wives may have left Ukraine with the children, and there is currently no way for the fathers to travel abroad to see them.
After more than a week of driving day and night through 10 countries, Tetiana and her eldest son finally arrived in Turku, Finland, where their youngest son, a semi-professional hockey player, lives. There she realized that she did not want to return to her home.
Tetiana
I was very tired and spent the first few days just sleeping, walking and thinking. I no longer have to go to work or take care of my parents, and suddenly I have free time. And then one moment I realized, surprisingly, that I didn’t miss home. I don’t want to go back It’s not that I don’t love my parents or my husband. I didn’t think about divorce. I realize now that I want to be alone.
andry
The first few weeks were really hard. After so many years, you wake up alone in a cold bed with no one waiting for you? And it wasn’t just the distance. It was a lack of faith in tomorrow. We didn’t know if the Russian army would pick us up. I didn’t even know if he was alive. But there was no night without her dreaming.
According to estimates by Ukrainian mental health experts, divorce lawyers, relationship experts, court clerks and judges, the number of marriages that ended in Ukraine last year was twice as high as before the war, and even tripled. Experts argue what is causing the crisis in Ukraine. divorce rateIt’s not the war-related stress that’s always high compared to other countries, there’s a lot of it, but the segregation on a huge scale.
Dr. Trofimenko, a psychotherapist, said that when people are cut off from their communities, they begin to reassess everything.
“People start asking questions,” she said. “For example, is this person who has spent so many years in his life still the right person for me even though I no longer know who I am?”
