People often view divorce as freedom, and imagine a new and much more exciting life. And it always seems as if your divorced friends have leapt into happy new lives. Or how hard it was no longer having a partner to hold you and listen to your worries at 3am. The admin’s appalling and highly emotive: deciding who gets what; selling property; arguing where the children should spend their time. Couples often say ‘We never fight in front of the children.’ But children always know what’s going on and are miserable.

Source: Daily Nation December 27, 2023 17:03 UTC