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Vast gulf between divorce in our culture & in real life - NYT

The Divorce Delusion By HEATHER HAVRILESKY, NY Times Magazine

 

Legal divorce should come after BOTH spouses' "emotional divorce"

Divorce really sucks (a view from the trenches) Part III : "Psychological Impact Of Marital Dissolution On The Nuclear Family - or

Divorce Wars/Legal Strategies and Myths", by Dallas-FW-area divorce lawyer Mark Nackol

This article has a very good point, although it's bound up in a lot of legalese, not in a way that makes it hard to understand. It explains why a divorce goes a lot better once both parties have reached emotional acceptance of the divorce and taken responsibility for their own partial fault. For even more on this see Aftermarriage — The Myth of Divorce by Boston divorce lawyer Anita Robboy.

This is one more argument for waiting periods of about two years for divorce, whether fault or no-fault, although the author does not get into that.