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"I have an old acquaintance who&amp;#039;s going through a divorce right now. She friended me via Facebook a few years back and I haven&amp;#039;t kept up on her life much - until lately. Lately, she&amp;#039;s been a Facebook-posting machine spewing out diatribes about her ex and all the drama whirling around their divorce battle. She&amp;#039;s posting pictures of her nights out with the girls as a newly single woman. She&amp;#039;s posting pointed remarks about her ex&amp;#039;s lack of prowess in the bedroom. In short, she&amp;#039;s an idiot. For one, her teenage kids have Facebook accounts of their own and they&amp;#039;re on Mom&amp;#039;s friend list as well. I&amp;#039;m sure she also has plenty of mutual friends with the ex on that list, too. She might as well rent out a billboard in town to post her rants on or hand-deliver all those Facebook pics of her with a drink in her hand and her arms around a guy she just met right to her ex&amp;#039;s lawyer. She&amp;#039;s also mentioned that she&amp;#039;s got a phone full of scathing text exchanges with the ex&amp;#039;s new girlfriend and an email file full of name calling episodes with the ex on her work computer.  Like I said, she&amp;#039;s an idiot. I know I&amp;#039;ve addressed this before, and on any given day you can find a dozen articles like this one reminding you to keep your mouth shut and your fingers off the keyboard while you&amp;#039;re negotiating a divorce. If you write it, text it, or post it, it can be used for you or against you. Some exhanges are great to have over email because you can refer your ex to them later and remind them that they agreed to something in writing. That&amp;#039;s really helpful for civil exchanges that take place while negotiating something. If your exchange is less than civil, keep it verbal! If you&amp;#039;re emailing or texting and it starts devolving into something not so civil, end the conversation and tell them to call you to discuss, either immediately or after they (or you) calm down. And it should go without saying that your friends, neighbors and most especially your kids don&amp;#039;t need to be reading about all your dirty laundry or seeing you make a drunken fool of yourself in public. Common sense. Why is it so uncommon when emotions are involved? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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