The assistant recommended that Mrs. Roosevelt refuse to grant the favor to settle the score. I distinctly remember forgetting all her meanness. Meanness, in divorce cases, and even cruelty, are familiar reactions to the mutual disappointment of a failed relationship. Spouses who feel that divorce is the result of moral offenses that have been perpetrated against them frequently develop a primitive conception of justice as retribution. They often enlist the services of lawyers to pursue vindication by retaliation.
Lawyers can further the fight, sometimes on purpose, sometimes accidentally.
Lives become filled with bitterness as each repays the other in kind. Good advice for people involved in divorce is to remember to forget. All Rights Reserved.