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Can spouses who can’t make a marriage work still manage to make a family work?
Absolutely, according to Cate Cochran. She’s a radio producer with CBC’s The Sunday Edition and author of Reconcilable Differences: Marriages End. Families Don’t (Second Story Press) about 10 families — including her own — that have found ways to stay together after a divorce. Cochrane shares a duplex with her ex-husband; she lives downstairs, he has an apartment upstairs and their teenage children move freely back and forth.
Cochrane and Megan Brown, one of the people profiled in Reconcilable Differences, joined Shelagh Rogers on Sounds Like Canada to talk about their experience of splitting up with their husbands but still living under the same roof. They also explain why they think this arrangement is best for the kids.
First aired November 21, 2007 on Sounds Like Canada. [runs 21:35]
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Wonderful to see such a book written! I hope to read it. I also am divorced, and my ex spouse and I are better friends since the divorce, than when we were married. Yet we will never remarry. We live in separate condos in the same city and visit our adult children and grandchildren together as when we were married.I think there are more of us out there than we would know, yet so many cannot believe it is possible, or dont want to forgive and move on.
Posted by: Debbie Everett | September 23, 2008 03:10 PM
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