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'No One Meant To Be In My Office': A Divorce Lawyer's Tips On Staying Together

James Sexton has seen the demise of more than a thousand marriages — which inspired him to write a new book on how to keep it together. His advice? Keep communicating, and be painfully honest.
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Marriage ... is what brings us together today. So naturally, we're talking to a divorce lawyer!

"We're raised to look at marriage as this milestone and we keep signing up for it," says James Sexton. "There are very few behaviors that end so badly so frequently that we would just sign up for it with such reckless abandon!"

Sexton has personally witnessed the demise of more than a thousand marriages — but that's right folks, you

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