What stages of grief are related to divorce?
During your divorce you can expect to experience different stages of grief. Often people start out feeling shocked, not just shocked because a person wants a divorce, but shocked that their actually going to do it finally. Its actually happening even though they’ve thought about it a very long time, and then often what happens is after that they recant, they take a step backward and they start negotiating. Maybe we can make it work and often what that is; is that’s a function of fear. That’s really not a function of appreciation of the other person, but I’m so scared and overwhelmed; I’m going to try to make this work now because it looks, the side of the mountain looks so much scarier than this side of the mountain that I’m going to do whatever I can to not have to cross over, and so what happens is people start negotiating. But the negotiation leaves you angry because it means you sacrifice and so then you become very angry and you find yourself angry that you’re in a situation where
