Men's Circle February Discussion: Divorce - Endings & Transitions

SCHOOL OF THOUGHT SOCIETY invites you to:
Men's Circle February Discussion: Divorce — Endings & Transitions
📍 Where: Violet Flame KL
📅 When: Wednesday, 25 February 2026
🕗 Time: 8:00PM – 10:00PM
📞 Reservation: +6019 723 2112

Divorce isn’t just a legal process — it is a deeply human experience, woven with emotional distance, unmet needs, identity shifts, and profound internal reckoning. Recent reflections by academics and legal commentators featured on the front pages of theSun [1] point to emotional disconnection as a central cause of marital breakdown where couples stop “turning towards each other” years before separation happens.

Local data also reveals a troubling pattern: rising divorce rates alongside declining reconciliation. This highlights growing pressures within families and persistent communication breakdowns signalling a broader need to rethink how relationships and separations are held within our social and legal frameworks [2][3][4][5].

Divorce rarely affects only two people. It ripples through families, children, and communities. While it may carry less social stigma today, it often plunges individuals into grief, depression or anger. Some may emerge having made peace, others carry unresolved pain for years, shaping how they relate to love, trust, and themselves.

This space is for Men who have lived through separation, those still navigating it, close family members affected by it, and those seeking to understand its deeper impact. Not to judge, fix, or preach but to reflect, to be witnessed and to find meaning beyond divorce.

References:

1. Emotional distance linchpin for failed marriage: Academic (theSun 7 Jan 2026)
2. Rising divorces, low reconciliation exposing flaws in family law system (theSun 7 Jan 2026)
3. Rising divorce rates shake foundation of society (theSun 3 Jan 2026)
4. Rise in divorces not a commercial prospect for lawyers but a growing social concern, says M'sian Bar (The Star 26 Dec 2025)
5. Malaysian Bar urges family law reforms as divorces rise, calls to shift away from courtroom battles (malaymail 26 Dec 2025)