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It's never easy when a couple splits and in 2023, it seems that more celebrities than ever are parting ways. From Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez to Taylor Swift and Matty Healy, it truly has been a summer of break-ups.

Relationship expert Tina Wilson says celebrities face particular strains when it comes to keeping a marriage alive.

“They’ve got the world’s attention on them and that adds fuel to the fire,” she explains. “If there are any issues within their relationship that have somehow got leaked out to the public, it exacerbates it.

"Both parties may feel that there’s more pressure on them to act.” Holding a grudge is never a positive thing, says Tina, founder of dating app Wingman.

“If you do split, it’s important that your feelings are heard but you don’t continually throw it back in their face,” she advises. “Focus on having a healthy relationship with yourself.”

But not all splits are sour, as Beccy Dickson and her ex-husband Macey Mitchell have proved. The pair, who parted at the end of 2021 and have three children, had been together for 21 years and married for eight.

Here, she explains why they get on so well despite no longer being a couple…

“We split up while we were away in Portugal. It was literally decided over a coffee – he swapped rooms with my daughter that very day.

“We had gone on holiday as a family in December 2021, but with Omicron cases increasing in the UK and Portugal imposing a post-Christmas lockdown, we decided to stay put.

We knew we could run our business abroad and the kids could access schoolwork online and we did some home-schooling with them.

“It was an amazing place, but just the two of us were stuck out there with three kids. It meant I had breathing space to realise it was time.

“Was the split caused by lockdown? Probably, but I think it would have happened anyway. I guess you could say we’ve ended up a little bit more like brother and sister.

“It had been a long time coming. There were a lot of tears before, during and after – there still are. It was the hardest decision I have ever made but it was the right one.

“In some ways being away from home made it easier – no pressures or other people to interfere and no one else involved. When we came back from abroad, he moved on to a house boat. That was about two-and-a-half years ago now.

"He’s here at the family home a lot of the time because we work together on our company, Branded Biophilia Ltd, and we co-parent the kids.

“We have tried to divorce but in the current climate it’s so expensive and it’s complicated because of the business. I’m not sure it’s entirely healthy for us to live like this but it’s where we are.

“I knew it was important to stay friends after the split because of the children and last year we went on holiday to Spain together – us, the kids and my mum. It was really nice and I would happily go away with him again, plus it makes sense financially because the costs are split. We still run our businesses together, too. Our goals are the same and it makes sense for us to get on the way we do.

“We are such good friends deep down but we’re just not destined to be together.”

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