fan_from_texas;698646 wrote:Not a divorce lawyer here--married to a psychotherapist (marriage/family therapist). After seeing people go through divorces, it's always expensive and ugly. It's usually easier and cheaper to work on the marriage and make it right than it is to fight over it.
As the old song goes, "It's Cheaper to Keep Her"
That being said, I was divorced about 10 years ago (have since remarried to a wonderful woman). I believe there is a lot of truth that regardless of whether you lived together first, once the rings slide on that finger, some people become different people afterwards. Spouses take each other for granted, have different expectations of the other in a marriage (as opposed to being a bf/gf or a live-in, etc.). When you factor children and economics into the mix is snowballs into a complete mess. My advice to the guy is that if they are having these issues now, they should end it before they drag other people into it, namely children. Life is too short to be unhappy.