Free Republic

"We're getting divorced. But we're doing it amicably, with mutual respect." When ex-spouses (or ex-es) describing their divorce sound like "we're withdrawing our offer on the house we looked at Thursday", you can get the idea that they never invested enough to be hurt by the loss. But listen again: you'll hear emptiness in the voice: Pain in the heart. Yes, the stigma is lost. Yes, some koffee-klatch and water-cooler conversations have an "everybody's-doing-it" attitude. No. No one who went through divorce thinks it's painless. But if pain-free divorce is a myth (in the shattering), divorce is a reality, an...