No one has ever said divorce was easy. In fact many people live for years in a painful and dead relationship because divorce just seems too difficult even to contemplate. People sometimes fear judgment of others, fear being alone, fear that their children will be damaged irreparably, fear economic hardship, or fear that they will forever continue to hassle and haggle with their ex so that life will be intolerable. Certainly the decision to divorce can be an act of courage, or it can be a fact of life over which one has no control.

Either way divorce takes an emotional toll that can be as traumatic and life-altering as the death of one's nearest and dearest. Why is it, then, that some people can survive a divorce, recapture their emotional stability and get on w ith their lives within a relatively short time, while for others the disruption of divorce goes on for years and years?

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