South Florida Divorce Center

Author and humorist Finley Peter Dunne husband of Margaret Ives Abbott, and famous for his Mr. Dooley articles, had this to say about men and marriage “The only good husbands stay bachelors; they’re too considerate to get married.”

Although some divorce lawyers are very good at what they do, letting lawyers fight with each other can make your divorce even more adversarial than it already is. When you want a simpler way to get through your divorce, mediation may be the right way to go.

When you have an extremely open level of communication with your children, you may find it strange when they’re suddenly unwilling to discuss their feelings about the pending divorce. Rest assured that this is a natural way for children to process information, but you may still want to schedule a few family counseling sessions just to be cautious.

“That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.” –John Updike