Have you heard recently about the people that are living together and not getting divorced because of the recession? If you can make it through a recession together, maybe you can save your marriage.
When I see the news articles about people who can't afford to get divorced because they can't afford two separate places and can't afford to have a lawyer take a percentage of the money, I can't help but think it would be nice for the same people to spend the time and effort to stay together.
What did they have to attract them in the first place.
How about happy times together.
If they can remember how happy they were once and dwell on the happy memories, maybe they can get their marriage back together.
Likewise, it would be better to spend money on a counselor to help them get the marriage back together than to spend money on a lawyer who is trying to help them break apart.
Often work insurance will cover a marriage counselor in the mental health program, but not a lawyer in the divorce process.
Unless the couple has addiction or abuse problems, it would be a much better use of the recession money to try to work out the marriage and make it strong by doing all the same things that they would do if they wanted to marry the person in the first place.
Fight for your marriage as hard as you fight to stop it.
There is a lot of power in all that energy.