The Christian Post has announced that a new Christian film about divorce, titled "Me and You, Us, Forever", will be released in 83 cities and 34 states on February 15th, the day after Valentine's Day.

The film chronicles the real-life story of a 47-year-old Christian man going through an unwanted divorce, which leads him to start reminiscing about his old high school girlfriend and his first true love. It purports to answer questions such as "can you overcome the pain and bitterness that follows divorce?", "is there ever healing?", and "why does God allow divorce?"

Dave Christiano, producer of the film, says that the film is very real. "The story tries to help people who have been affected by singleness, separation or divorce, and that begins by being honest with your feelings, emotions, and yourself. Through the main character in the film, we'll see just that. It's the beginning of healing in any situation." Christiano further states that the film is timely, as he estimates that 90% of church congregations have been in some way affected by broken marriages. "A mother, father, brother, sister, relative, almost everyone has now been touched by this dreadful word," says Christiano.

It will be interesting to see how this film will be received by the various Christian faiths. Calling your film a Christian movie about divorce is risky, as it suggests you feel you speak for all Christians. The opinions of people leaving comments on this article seem to range from "of course divorce is OK" to "God does not allow for divorce, end of story". If this is any indication, it seems Christiano may have stirred up a hornet's nest.

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Recently I read an interview in the U.S. News and Daily Report with Tim Harford, author of The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World. His book explores the idea that there are many rational choices that lie behind seemingly irrational events, and when I heard he had referred to divorce as "underrated", I couldn't wait to find out how he justified that one.

But as seems to be the norm lately, I was wrong again. Harman pointed out one benefit of divorce that I had not considered — since divorce has become easier to come by, Harman claims, there has been a decline in the rate of domestic violence and female suicide.

This illustrated two important concepts to me. The first was how difficult divorce must have been for women of previous generations. The statement "easier divorce equals fewer female suicides" makes sense. But that means that in the past, women would rather commit suicide than stay married or get divorced. And that, my friends, is really saying something.

The other concept that jumped out at me is that incidents of domestic violence have decreased since divorce has become easier to obtain. Again, this is a statement that makes sense on its own, but think of the deeper implication. How many times have we (unfortunately) heard someone lament "I couldn't help myself, she just made me so angry!"? Well, apparently you could help yourself. Once the penalty for abuse was increased (women could leave their husbands), the abuse decreased as husbands began to fear their wives would actually leave them.

I guess that whole axiom about clouds and silver linings has something to it after all.

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Many of us are very familiar with the questions and decisions that lead us to divorce. We consider all the major things like finances, custody, living arrangements, etc. But what about the little things?

Reading through the stories our bloggers have been kind enough to share, I've begun to recognize a common theme. It seems what most people mourn about their divorce are often not the big issues. After all, these are the reasons people divorce in the first place. It seems, rather, that the little things like falling asleep next to someone or having someone around to fix the car are the things people often miss most. In Scott's case, it was getting his hair cut.

Scott Smallwood wrote a piece about the aftermath of his divorce for the NY Times which got me thinking on this topic. He and his wife divorced after they'd both given up their church, a force that had been prevalent in their lives for 30 years. They didn't know how to deal with everyday issues when this framework had been removed, and didn't know to reconcile their new lives within the framework. And Scott had to find someone else to cut his hair.

It seems his wife had always been the one to do that for him, and it was a ritual he recalls with fondness. After going to the barber for the first time in 13 years, he began to reflect on why people get divorced. In what I consider to be a very profound moment, he speaks about how he and his wife viewed their relationship. "I saw our struggles as momentary dips on a long-term trend line that was climbing steadily upward toward an easy, comfortable, lifelong partnership. She saw those same good times as aberrations, brief rises on an otherwise falling line."