(January 6, 2024 at 8:30 pm)Astreja Wrote: People grow apart. Their interests change. Their life goals change. Divorce is a perfectly reasonable solution when a relationship is bringing someone more pain than happiness.
(January 7, 2024 at 4:18 pm)neil Wrote: I guess one of the issues I have with divorce is that there's a huge waste of resources, such as the cost for a lawyer (and let's not forget that for each divorce there are 2 lawyers involved), and I'd like to see society find better & more useful ways of using those resources.
Well, when I got divorced in the early 2000s it cost me a grand total of $2500 CDN for lawyer fees, plus a couple of thousand for personal items that were never returned, plus a $15K loss on the house because the equity had to be split 50/50. Excellent investment - especially since on the day I left the relationship I was literally in fear for my life, and believe to this day that I would have been murdered had I stayed.
