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It's I-do Part 2. I'm back, your celebrity mentor, guys. It's I do part two. I'm back, your celebrity mentor, Jennifer Fessler, and

Valentine's Day is around the corner. And some of you may hate your husband's guts. If that's the case,

this is the episode for you. We are bringing an incredible divorce attorney.

Her name is Marilyn Chinitz, and she's been working in the field for over 35 years.

You may have seen her on this day show on 2020. She's a celebrity divorce attorney.

Marilyn, this is I do part two, but some of our listeners might be

contemplating divorce. And I want to pick your brain about the gray divorce or the silver divorce.

Why is a divorce attorney, are we seeing more and more couples divorcing when they are 55 plus?

Okay, so gray divorce, really unfortunate. I married 40 years.

Wow. Congratulations. This is when your life really kind of takes hold and it's really sad when

it comes to an ending. Yeah. Like the rug comes out and a lot of particularly women, we're not expecting it. So divorce doesn't

really happen, boom, all at once. It kind of dies a death over a period of time. And what

contributes to that? Lack of interest, you no longer communicate, you are living parallel lives, and it doesn't just

happen at once, it really does take time. And then all of a sudden, someone wakes up and they

said, you know what, I've got my last trunch. I've got another 20 years. I'm miserably unhappy. I don't want to stay that way.

Yeah. And so I want to make changes. I feel like I'm doing this 41 years. Divorce really is not

necessarily an ending. I think it could be an addict. I love that. What I mean by that?

If a marriage is dead and you too are miserable,

and even though you haven't planned for it,

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