Going through a divorce is not only a huge legal process, it is also a highly personal and emotional process as well. Here are three different strategies you can use to help ease the emotional strain that you may experience as you go through your divorce.

#1 Go Into Counseling

You are going to be going through a lot of different emotions throughout your divorce, ranging from relief, happiness, and joy to anger and grief. Make sure that you have a source to direct all of those emotions to. Your lawyer is not who you should turn to for emotional support or emotional venting. Your friends can also get worn out from hearing the emotional details of your divorce. Going into counseling is a great way to ensure that you have a proper outlet for sharing all of the emotions that you are going through during your divorce.

Having a counselor can also help you work through why you want to hold on or fight over certain property or items; it can help you realize what you really want out of the legal side of your divorce as well.

#2 Get Important Valuables Appraised

Don't try to guess how much things are worth. Most people figure in their emotional attachment when trying to figure out the value of different items, ranging from a house to an antique clock. Instead of spending time with your spouse fighting over what things are worth, hire professionals such as a home or business appraiser, financial planner, and an accountant to help you determine the values of your personal properties, investments, and businesses that you own together. This will reduce your workload and your stress load as well.

#3 Work To Reach An Agreement

Try to limit the fighting in your divorce; it can be emotionally exhausting and unproductive. Spend time with your spouse discussing what you both want to have at the end of the divorce and what type of positions you want to be in. Talk about what you both need and want from the divorce. If at all possible, work to resolve how to split your property together before you involve a lawyer; use your lawyers for the legal legwork, not as tools to fight against one another.

Take this part slowly; work together for an hour or so once a week until you can reach an agreement on everything that you can. Then, let your attorneys or mediator know what you need assistance coming to a consensus on. Working this out together, instead of involving third parties, can be healing and allow you positively close this chapter of your lives together. 

For additional information, contact a family law attorney at a law firm such as Urech & Livaudais PC.

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