You have been married six years have two kids and think that your family life is perfect. Your doting wife is still a sexy stay at home mom who is fun and a good mom. Life is good. Unfortunately for you, your wife disagrees and is about to rock your world and blow up the family. She tells you that she doesn’t want to take you to the cleaners because she feels extreme guilt about the divorce and that she wants to work out a 50-50 parenting time arrangement. What do you do?
This is the exact scenario a friend of a friend found himself in recently. Pure divorce manna from heaven vs. the divorce scenario many men face where he faces the prospect of getting taken to the cleaners and being prevented from adequate time with the kids. Did he consider himself the Lou Gehrig of divorcing men and execute the transaction with speed and haste? No. Instead instead of striking while the guilt was hot to work out a fair settlement he got emotional and acted irrationally. After throwing an emotional fit and locking her in a closet he now faces a restraining order and grave prospects for a settlement involving significant alimony. Given the situation he was facing it was not surprising he felt emotional but for God’ sake keep yourself in check man. Because of that emotional outburst and poor decision he faces the full brunt of a former guilty feeling woman transformed into a righteously scorned victim.
Always keep your eyes on the prize your emotions in check and don’t look a gift horse in the mouth (unless its Trojan).





