“Separation is hard enough as it is without adding additional anxiety and stress, and having to be really surreptitious about things,” she says.

“Problems usually don’t happen in a vacuum and sometimes there is fault on both sides. But you shouldn’t have to come up with a long list of reasons why you want to leave. You should just be able to do it.”

For Rebecca, it’s all about the ability to make that choice and the empowerment that brings.

“It’s very, very difficult to say out loud that things are no longer working,” she shares. “This is my second time at trying to get things right, and in my first divorce, things could be settled by mediation. But that isn’t an option for me this time.

“I want us both to ride off into the sunset in opposite directions and be happy, and at the moment, a no-fault divorce is the best way to do that.”

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