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7 Life Lessons To Live By-Photo4Job loss and financial stress spelled the end of an already crumbling marriage for Lorraine and her husband. “Eventually we became a couple who dragged each other down instead of supporting and complementing each other,” she recalls. A trial separation, two years of marriage counseling and self-improvement seminars didn’t help. But when the couple divorced, they vowed to keep it civil. They didn’t use lawyers to establish shared custody or anything else. Lorraine recalls the judge, after seeing them so friendly and helpful with each other, asking if they were really sure they wanted to go through with the divorce. “We were both too broken to want to argue over money, belongings or least of all, our kids.”