"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

~Mignon McLaughlin

"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years." ~Simone Signoret

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."

~Emily Kimbrough

"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."

~Doug Larson

"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."

~Blaise Pascal

"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new."

~Ursula K. Le Guin

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

~Robert Heinlein

"Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely."

~Laurence Marks

"The art of love... is largely the art of persistence."

~Albert Ellis

"The most critical factor in our ultimate happiness and success is the quality of our relationships. Since most relationships are less than creative, most can be improved upon."

~Wendy

Founder of Creative Relationship Center

About Divorce Mediation

So you're considering separating... or perhaps you already have. It's rare for both spouses to come to a decision to terminate their marriage at exactly the same time. However, once one of you is convinced of the rightness of that decision – or accepts its inevitability – it is not only wise but necessary to proceed with the business of having your separation legalized.

Many people rush headlong into the adversarial of litigation, each hiring separate attorneys to advocate for them the many difficult decisions that they face. Often, conflicts are escalated as each party tries to "win" a better deal at the expense of his or her former partner. BUT THERE IS A BETTER WAY.

Mediation is a cooperative process in which you and your spouse will work with a neutral third party to come to your own agreement on all issues that must be decided. These may include child custody, parenting schedules, equitable distribution of assets, awards of spousal maintenance and child support, and others.

When compared to the traditional litigated divorce process, divorce mediation is...

· Less expensive. The cost of a mediated divorce is estimated to be 25-40 percent of the cost of an adversarial divorce.

· Less time-consuming. A typical mediated divorce can be accomplished in four to eight weeks.

· Less emotionally difficult. Rather than working against each other, you and your spouse will be working cooperatively toward an agreement that is equitable to both of you. This will preserve your ability to work together in the future as parenting partners, and reduce the residual resentment and anger that usually accompany the win-lose litigation process.

· More dignified. Mediation strives to protect the self-esteem and dignity of all parties. Rather than looking back to assign blame, mediation looks to the future and enables both of you to begin your new lives in full control of the outcome.

At the conclusion of the mediation process, you will have a full and complete Memorandum of Understanding ready to be reviewed and filed by the attorneys of your choosing.