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The Good Divorce
How to End Your Marriage Without Ending Your Family

Praise for The Good Divorce

"Karen McNenny names what so many parents feel but rarely hear out loud: our divorce systems were not designed to support families living across two homes. Blending lived experience with meaningful data, The Good Divorce delivers a child-centered, realistic path forward that is reassuring without being idealistic."

—Jen Schimbeno, CDFA®, Co-Founder, Parent Team, Entrepreneur & Family Systems Advocate

“With rare, relatable honesty, Karen McNenny draws from her own divorce to guide readers through the complex reality of getting unmarried, holding both grief and relief while navigating the limits of our often misaligned legal system. Her vivid storytelling honors the pain without leaving readers stuck in a victimized story, helping parents feel less alone and ready to move forward with clear steps and possibility—toward a Good Divorce and a healthier next chapter for themselves, their families, and their children."

—Brandyn Roark Caires, LCPC, Creator, Co-Founder, Parent Team, Mediator / Clinical Child and Family Psychotherapist, Child Centered Divorce Expert

“Karen McNenny has provided a unique and refreshing balance between sharing her personal traumas and triumphs combined with practical strategies in explaining that The Good Divorce really is possible. While confronting many of the problems with the adversarial ‘system,’ she shows how to successfully navigate a good new co-parenting relationship that protects your children, your finances and your mental health.”

—Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., Director of Innovation, High Conflict Institute, and developer of the New Ways for Families parent skills training method

“This book serves up a whopping dose of illumination on the all-too-often fraught topic of divorce. By sharing her personal story, and modelling how families can evolve through divorce, Karen McNenny challenges the norms, and gives families a fresh and practical perspective.”

—Laura Munson, New York Times bestselling author and founder of the acclaimed Haven Writing Retreats

“Amid an industry built on escalation, Karen McNenny writes about restraint, respect, and the quiet power of divorcing well. Families deserve this option.”

—Mercedes Barker, CEO & Founder, Your Divorce

Karen McNenny (Author)

9781394374267, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 4 May 2026

256 pages
22.6 x 15 x 2.5 cm, 0.295 kg

Essential perspectives and insights to get a divorce without devastation

In The Good Divorce, author Karen McNenny shares her own divorce journey, teaching readers how to redefine relationship success and find peace in taking the best step for you and your family. She exposes how the divorce industry often sets families up to fail—from outdated FMLA policies that don't recognize divorce as a major life event, to ”divorce penalties” in insurance and banking, to a legal system that incentivizes conflict over cooperation—and reframes divorce as a family evolution instead of a failure.

Above all, this book is a call to action—to reform the policies and practices that keep families trapped in destructive patterns, to challenge the assumption that divorce must be a messy event, and to create a new framework for how we handle relationship transitions. Readers will find insights and perspectives on:

  • The concept of “relationship purgatory,” when you want to stay, but know it isn’t healthy for you or your kids
  • The grief that comes from a loss of identity during a divorce
  • Common mistakes before, during, and after a divorce, like offering children too many choices
  • The unexpected upsides of divorce, like more personal time, focused relationship with your kids, and reinvention of self

The Good Divorce is a must-read for all partners thinking about divorce who want to avoid the all-too-common devastation of dissolving a marriage.

PROLOGUE IX

CHAPTER ONE THE LOVE 1

CHAPTER TWO THE SYSTEM 23
In Their Own Words
Divorce Celebration with Jake and Jeni

CHAPTER THREE THE BREAKUP 45
In Their Own Words
One Big Happy Family with Mercedes

CHAPTER FOUR THE KIDS 67
In Their Own Words
Together Apart with Kelly and Kyle

CHAPTER FIVE THE HOME 91
In Their Own Words
Leave for the Kids with Maggie and Kara

CHAPTER SIX THE GRIEF 111
In Their Own Words
Working Together with Ellen

CHAPTER SEVEN THE COMMUNITY 129
In Their Own Words
Bonus Parents with Elke

CHAPTER EIGHT THE SELF 153
In Their Own Words
Reinventing Myself with Aimee

CHAPTER NINE THE LOGISTICS 171
In Their Own Words
For the Better with Erin and Mitch

CHAPTER TEN THE NEW 189

EPILOGUE 201
APPENDIX 205
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 211
A CHRISTMAS BONUS 215
AUTHOR BIO 229
INDEX 231

Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]

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