Sue Moss speaks with PopEater about Kate Winslet’s divorce.
PopEater: Kate Winslet’s Divorce: Do We Really Need to Know?
Marriage is a precarious thing. For adults in their thirties, the divorce rates in both England and America hover somewhere in the 10% range. That means about one in ten marriages will dissolve each year, making them a fairly common occurrence. But when that divorce happens to someone in the public eye, to a celebrity — like, say, Kate Winslet, who announced this week that she and her husband director Sam Mendes are ending their nearly seven-year marriage — everyone wants to know all the gory details.
Sue Moss, an experienced divorce attorney, shares her thoughts on Kate Winslet’s divorce being “amicable”. “The reason for all the speculation over the Winslet divorce is simple,” Moss says. “When couples say it is ‘entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement,’ it usually isn’t. This is sort of like saying, ‘It’s not you, it’s me,’ which virtually always means ‘It’s you.”
Marriage is a precarious thing. For adults in their thirties, the divorce rates in both England and America hover somewhere in the 10% range. That means about one in ten marriages will dissolve each year, making them a fairly common occurrence. But when that divorce happens to someone in the public eye, to a celebrity — like, say, Kate Winslet, who announced this week that she and her husband director Sam Mendes are ending their nearly seven-year marriage — everyone wants to know all the gory details.
Sue Moss, an experienced divorce attorney, shares her thoughts on Kate Winslet’s divorce being “amicable”. “The reason for all the speculation over the Winslet divorce is simple,” Moss says. “When couples say it is ‘entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement,’ it usually isn’t. This is sort of like saying, ‘It’s not you, it’s me,’ which virtually always means ‘It’s you.”
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