Divorce, Not To Be Taken Lightly

Amanda Lockhart — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:00:00 -0500

I read a very thought-provoking piece the other day by a columnist from a newspaper in Northern Ireland. She's divorced and has since remarried. And while she's glad her country's divorce laws have been relaxed over the years, she clearly doesn't relish having gone down that road. And she warns anyone considering or going through a divorce not to take it lightly.

That's a point worth making. On one hand, several of us here at FWW, including me, have been harshly critical of nations and cultures where divorce is made difficult, or governed by archane laws, or where the process is tilted in the man's favor. We think it should be your right if it's what you feel is right for you. But for every person who decides to divorce after careful thought and hard work to save the marriage, there are others who seemingly do it on a whim.

The writer seems content with the way her life has ended up, but it sounds like she has regrets about the road she's traveled to get there. And for a lot of us, that may the best we can hope for after a divorce.

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Divorce, Not To Be Taken Lightly