Where did society go so wrong in California? It has labeled almost 50% of the population as failures because they divorced. If divorce is bad, then the people getting divorced must be bad; if they are bad, they deserve to suffer. Right?

WRONG! The traditional divorce system makes the participants feel like criminals, and society has allowed it to happen. Perhaps there is a deeply-ingrained belief or value system that supports that philosophy. For adults the price is one thing, BUT what about their children? Certainly no one believes that they, too, should suffer in the face of their parents’ “mistake”.

Divorce is neither bad nor good – it simply is. How we move through divorce will define it either way. Divorce is a transition, an event in your life – it does not need to define your life. It comes with certain endings, of course, but more importantly, it is about new beginnings. If you move through your divorce as an empowered decision-maker, you will lay the foundation that will stand the test of time. You will put a plan in place that will help you and your children of divorce transition peacefully to new beginnings.