Unofficial Guide to Getting a Divorce
Chapter One
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Deciding whether to split * Marital counseling,
separation, or postponement * Soul searching *
Moving forward
Is This Really the End
of the Marriage?
The foundation of any marriage is the human
connection-the bond that is formed between
two people who have chosen to share their love
and their lives. You and your spouse may enjoy many
of the same activities, may have brought children into
the world together, may still laugh at the same jokes.
But if you reach the point where you feel you're
losing-or have lost-that deep human connection-
nothing else may matter. That's when divorce may
start to seem like the best option.
The breakdown of the human connection can
happen for all sorts of reasons. In the heat of an
argument or during a time of high stress-or perhaps
right after bumping into an old flame in the supermarket
-it is often easy to leap to the conclusion
that divorce is the answer. And it may well be true-
but before you start flipping through the Yellow Pages
for a lawyer, it's important to look at the big picture,
and to try to do so with an objective ... read full excerpt from Unofficial Guide to Getting a Divorce, 2nd Edition ebook