Angry spouses feed greedy lawyers and I have seen this more times than I care to believe.
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I've heard more than one divorce lawyer say "I'm not in the divorce business. I'm in the revenge business".
My own divorce 35 years ago was one of the more amicable ones I've ever heard of, but once the decision was made there wasn't a whole lot to argue about: split the remaining assets, no children to think of, and our incomes and benefits were virtually identical so there was nothing to be gained by going after each other's. I think the lawyer's fee was $100 at the time and that was just to handle the paperwork on a non-contested divorce.
And things do get better even if a divorce does happen. Although I couldn't possibly have anticipated it at the time, I wouldn't appreciate DW as much as I do had I not been through that experience first. Later this month will be our 30th anniversary.