The Smart Split; Successful divorce doesn't have to be an oxymoron.

Divorce is everywhere. It screams at us from tabloid headlines at the grocery store checkout. It touches us personally when, as adults, our parents finally call it quits, or our own starter marriage fizzles.

It's also universally ugly. Between custody battles, money squabbles and bitterness, divorce usually leaves one party on the short end of the fair stick.

And divorce is always heartbreaking – the final chapter in a book we never wanted to read in the first place.

So, to talk about having a "successful divorce" sounds unrealistic: a pie-in- the-sky idea plucked from some smarmy self-help book.

It's not, says Deborah Moskovitch, who weathered a seven-year divorce and went on to write The Smart Divorce: A Team Approach to Managing the Issues of Divorce.

"Being smart about divorce really means moving forward with hope and confidence."

via The Smart Split; Successful divorce doesn't have to be an oxymoron. | Kelowna.com.