I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The community should develop better support systems for saving or restoring potentially healthy marriages.But we should also help people who decide to divorce have healthier partings.
Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.
I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
Divorce: fission after fusion.
When my parents were divorced in the late '70s, early '80s, the climate was that you should screw over your ex as much as possible - get the worst lawyer in the world, all that. That's not what people are out to do anymore. It feels cruddy to try and destroy each other just because you're breaking up.
I wish I'd heard about quickie divorce packs from Tesco's sooner.
The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.
What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family?
My biggest grouse since the time I filed for divorce has been that when all the drama unfolded, the children were made pawns. That should never be the case. You never know how it affects them.
You can't go through a divorce and then get back together.
The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
Oprah deserves the best. I am not the best when it comes to divorce. What do I know about divorce? Nothing at that time.
I would never say I think divorce is wrong. After seeing what my parents went through, I would never want them to stay together just because they think it's the right thing to do.
Every break-up is unique. But when there are children involved you don't know where to turn.
The people I've met who are divorce lawyers, there's a sense of them having to look reassuringly expensive.
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
Just because you've been divorced doesn't mean you're not still a family.
I'm very lucky, I had a very amicable separation and very amicable divorce, but it was still horrendous.
She should get a divorce and settle down.
If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
