"I want to separate from my partner, but I'm terrified I'll be left with nothing" Kate Daly on separation, divorce & healthy communication
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help.
In this episode, I'm delighted to be speaking to Kate Daly, co-founder of amicable and host of The Divorce Podcast. As a leading expert on divorce, separation, relationships and family law reform, Kate joins me to discuss the emotional and legal challenges faced by individuals in long-term relationships, particularly when they break down.
Our dilemma comes from a listener who wants to separate from her common law partner of 15 years, but feels concerned about how the separation might impact her financially and legally. Kate provides some incredibly useful insights into the legal vulnerabilities of cohabiting partners and emphasises the importance of open communication and seeking legal advice. We also talk about the need for understanding, patience, and hope in navigating these life transitions.
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| 0:00.0 | Now time to thank our partner of this episode, Alzheimer's Society. |
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| 1:00.1 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your dilemmas meet my therapeutic insights. |
| 1:06.9 | I'm Emery Terrell, psychotherapist, author and well-recovering People Pleaser. Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. You've come to the right |
| 1:28.7 | place. |
| 1:37.0 | Welcome to this week's episode of Dial Emma, and this is one that's particularly close to my heart, |
| 1:43.6 | and it's one that I knew I needed to get a certain someone to help me unpack. So I'm very delighted to say that that certain someone was willing to come aboard. And I am joined today by Kate Daly. |
| 1:56.0 | Kate is one of the country's leading experts on divorce, separation relationships and family law reform. |
| 2:01.5 | As a co-founder of Amicable, the leading online divorce services company, Kate helps couples and |
| 2:06.8 | separated parents navigate divorce and separation amicably. Her insights are both personal and |
| 2:13.0 | professional, having co-founded amicable after going through her own highly acrimonious, costly and lengthy divorce. |
| 2:19.2 | She's also a qualified relationship counsellor and resolution trained family consultant, |
| 2:23.7 | which is why I needed her with me today, because this is the dilemma that we're unpacking. |
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