... there is no future to the mariage he/she usually prefers to end it sooner rather than later. Indeed, there are good reasons not to delay. One very common reaction when, say, a husband receives a divorce petition based on unreasonable behaviour is something along the lines of, "Why, you've been quite as unreasonable as me and so I'm going to defend it and issue my own petition." It is important to understand that the reason for the divorce has, in the overwhelming majority of cases, no impact whatever on the other two issues which may need to be resolved - the questions of financial provision and/or any disputes affecting residence or contact with the children. These two latter issues are quite separate and dealt with completely independently of the divorce and using quite different criteria. Once this has been explained it is normally possible to allow a divorce to proceed without acrimony ...

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