A Divorce Lawyer Just Gave Incredibly Powerful Marriage Advice and It’s Only 4 Words Long
If you want to know how to keep your car running, ask a mechanic. If you want the lowdown on caring for your pipes, call your plumber. Why? Because people who deal with things when they’re broken often know the most about how to keep them in good repair. James J. Sexton thinks the same principle applies to divorce lawyers.
In his book, If You’re in My Office, It’s Already Too Late, the 20-year veteran of every kind of divorce imaginable dishes out advice on how to avoid needing his services based on his up-close experience of marital breakdown. It might not be the first place you’d look for relationship advice, but when you think about it, it makes a lot of sense.
And when you read this interview with Sexton in Vice it makes even more sense. In a long chat with Sean Illing, Sexton offers incredible insights into why marriages fail (social media is nearly always involved these days, he reports) and what that says about how to keep them strong. The whole piece is well worth a read in full but much of Sexton’s wisdom can be boiled down to just four insightful words.
