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by Maggie Griffin Heeger
There's an epidemic in my circle of friends. Death is everywhere, but it's not only people dying -- it's relationships. Divorce is running rampant. One friend is ending a 15-year marriage, complete with two children under age 10. Another was presented with a divorce ultimatum and feels powerless to stop the proceedings, despite her desire to keep Mom and Dad united for their three preschoolers. And my divorce is a remarkably amicable parting of the ways involving two teen-agers and two adults who finally realized that staying together for the sake of the kids is not always the right thing to do.
None of these irreparable marriages is the result of whim and impulse; they're all from long-term relationships with children, houses with picket fences and pets--the ones that everyone thought would last forever. And it goes without saying that none of the now-divorcing couples ever thought it would happen to them, yet there they are, struggling to sort it all out.
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