9 years ago
Monday, December 10, 2012
Separated but stuck under one roof
After 20 years of marriage, Denise and Adrian White split up two years ago.
Now, like many divorced couples, they find it impossible to be in the same room.
They communicate largely by text, although their two sons, Tyrell, 19, and nine-year-old Duvall, sometimes pass messages between the pair.
Undoubtedly many divorced couples will identify with this situation, but there’s just one crucial difference.
The former couple, and their two children, are all still living in the same house.
Denise, 40, an insurance consultant from Dulwich, South London, ended her relationship with husband Adrian, 41, a plumber, in April 2011.
‘Adrian was my childhood sweetheart but over the years we grew apart until all we did was argue,’ she says.
Their divorce papers came through in June, but as neither has enough money to move out, they’re stuck in a painful limbo that makes everyone feel uncomfortable. ‘My nine-year-old is currently sharing a double bed with my ex-husband,’ says Denise.
It may sound extreme, but Denise and Adrian are far from alone. A new survey from housing charity Shelter found that in the past year, seven per cent — 3.6 million people — of British adults had found themselves in this distressing position.
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