Especially when things are not going well at home and you would like to shoot the other person to the moon, many people have the impulse to move out of the marital home to (temporarily) clarify the situation. However, if a (contentious) divorce takes place afterwards, this can have nasty consequences. It is a common misconception that there is no harm in moving out of the shared home in the event of marital conflicts. Indeed, it is often not known that moving out can be considered marital misconduct (“malicious abandonment”).