Former Legal Assistant 20+ Years of Experience In all these years working with people going through divorces I have noticed certain similarities, most believe that a divorce has to be a pitched battle. It's not like that. Sometimes we want to hide our suffering by acting angry and showing a personality that is not ours so as not to see ourselves "defeated". It is worth mentioning that a divorce is often compared to the death of a loved one, since it is the closing of a cycle