- Australian family lawyer Gabriella Pomare launches second episode of relationship podcast Before It Breaks, focusing on couples creating physical and emotional distance
- Episode 2 explores sleep divorce and other separation trends, examining whether space helps or hinders relationships
- Podcast aims to identify relationship breakdown patterns before crisis point, drawing on host's legal expertise and personal experience
- Series addresses gap in understanding relationship dissolution, noting official divorce statistics don't capture early warning signs
- Ten-episode first season covers topics including emotional affairs, parenting decisions, and social media's impact on relationships
Sydney, Australia, 8 May 2026: Australian family lawyer and award-winning author Gabriella Pomare has released the second episode of Before It Breaks, her new weekly podcast about the patterns and misunderstood ways relationships begin to change before they officially break.
Episode 2, Is Space Saving Your Relationship, or Softly Ending It?, examines couples who are still together but creating more distance - increasingly living separate emotional, domestic and even physical lives. From couples sleeping in separate bedrooms - a trend termed ‘sleep divorce’, to taking separate holidays, to maintaining separate residences while remaining in committed relationships, Gabriella asks whether these arrangements signal healthy autonomy or a shift in how modern couples manage disconnection, exhaustion and intimacy.
While divorce rates in Australia are at a record low, fewer marriages are also being registered, and de facto relationships don’t factor into official statistics at all. Before It Breaks speaks to what the data doesn’t capture.
Gabriella explains, "Divorce statistics tell us when a marriage legally ends. They don't tell us when the relationship started breaking — the years of unspoken resentment, the avoided conversations, the emotional load carried by one person."
Episode 2 offers listeners a practical ‘return test’ to assess whether distance is helping or widening the gap, explores why one person's freedom can't come at the cost of the other's exhaustion, and suggests the questions couples should ask before distance becomes the only answer.
Drawing on more than a decade of frontline experience as a Partner at Norton Law Group Family Lawyers in Sydney and her lived experience as a separated co-parent, Gabriella gives listeners the language to understand what is happening before they reach crisis point and whether the structure of their relationship still supports connection, honesty and care.
Season 1 runs for ten episodes, exploring topics including the emotional affair with the ‘work wife’, staying together for the kids, marriage and work burnout, and the impact of social media on relationships. New episodes are released every Wednesday.
Episode 2 of Before It Breaks with Gabriella Pomare is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major podcast platforms.
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About Gabriella Pomare
Gabriella Pomare is an award-winning author, family lawyer, international speaker, media commentator and podcast host. She is a Partner at The Norton Law Group Family Lawyers in Sydney, where she advises on complex parenting, property and family violence matters. She studied law and journalism at the University of New South Wales and completed part of her legal studies at Columbia Law School in New York.
Her book The Collaborative Co-Parent (Morgan James Publishing) won a Distinguished Favorite at the 2025 NYC Big Book Awards, was a finalist in the 2025 ABLE Book Awards, and earned two 2026 Stevie Business Awards in the Thought Leader category. A sought-after US and Australian media voice, she has appeared on NBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, Good Day New York, The Today Show and The Morning Show, and completed a US media tour across New York and Los Angeles.
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