Wendy Paris-Splitopia - Dispatches from Today's Good Divorces on LOVE Cafe Radio

Published: March 31, 2016, 11 p.m.

b'Join The LOVE Cafe on Facebook \\n\\nVisit New LOVE Cafe Web Site\\n\\nWendy Paris drops into the LOVE Cafe Radio scene with Host Scott Cluthe LIVE 2 Nite\\n\\n7 EST- 6 CST- 5 MST- 4 PST Call in: 347-308-8478\\n\\nSPLITOPIA:\\xa0 DISPATCHES FROM TODAY\\u2019S GOOD DIVORCE AND HOW TO PART WELL\\xa0 by Wendy Paris\\n\\nWhile divorce has improved dramatically for many people over the past 40 years, our ideas and attitudes about it remain stuck in the past.\\xa0 A belief that divorce must be a disaster for all can create just that outcome\\u2014and lead to the escalating fighting, scarred children and six-figure court battles we still see.\\n\\nIt\\u2019s time to update our understanding of divorce and use the tools, cooperative legal processes and support available today to get through this tough time with compassion, self-compassion and love. We need to harness our knowledge and the resources available to better protect our children, and respect our families\\u2014in all their myriad forms. \\xa0Splitopia can help.\\n\\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\\n\\nWendy Paris is a journalist and personal essayist whose work on marriage, relationships and divorce has appeared in The New York Times, Psychology Today, The New York Observer,and is the co-author of the perennial-selling wedding-planning guide, Words for the Wedding (Perigee 2011; original edition 2001), and the author of a humorous book of dating advice, Happily Ever After: The Fairy Tale Formula for Lasting Love (HarperCollins, 2002).'