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"Did you know that ancient Ireland had some of the most liberal and woman-favoring marriage and divorce laws of its time? Accounts vary by clan, of course, but according to Library Ireland, the following seemed to be the norm: So far as the laws show, the marriage relation was extremely loose, and divorce was as easy, and could be obtained on as slight grounds, as is now the case in some of the States of the American Union. It appears to have been obtained more easily by the wife than by the husband. When obtained on her petition, she took away with her all the property she had brought her husband, all her husband had settled upon her on their marriage, and in addition so much of her husband&amp;#039;s property as her industry appeared to have entitled her to. This latter would be little or nothing if she had been an idle woman, a considerable amount if she had been a good housewife and producer of wealth. In other words, if she kept the house running smoothly and spun wool or baked tarts for sale to the masses, she deserved her fair share of the marital assets. Isn&amp;#039;t that what this process all comes down to in the end? We all want what we feel we&amp;#039;re owed. Whether that&amp;#039;s money, or time with our children, or the simple acknowledgement that we&amp;#039;ve been wronged, in whatever fashion. One key thing I&amp;#039;ve learned in this process is that spinning your wheels over what you think you should be getting stops you from moving forward to where you really ought to be. So today, on St. Patrick&amp;#039;s Day, I&amp;#039;m going to focus on how lucky I am. My soon-to-be-ex husband writes out that support check every month. He&amp;#039;s good to his kids. My kids are eating well, sheltered, happy most of the time and in a great school district. I&amp;#039;m in pretty good health. I have a great job (two, actually!), I am loved by many who are important to me. And tonight, readers, I&amp;#039;m baking a batch of my famous Guiness-Chocolate cupcakes with Bailey&amp;#039;s Irish Cream frosting. And just to be fair, I&amp;#039;ll probably eat one for each of you. It&amp;#039;s the least I can do. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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