Common Sense Divorce

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ONLINE SERVICES AVAILABLE ACROSS ONTARIO Divorce can be complicated. And we want to help you make good choices.

The Common Sense Report offers thoughts and insights into making better choices in life. We believe that when you are well-informed, prepared and supported, you can create new beginnings everyday. Emotions can run high when things are not running smoothly. There are times when everything feels like it’s falling apart. Your choices and actions will make all the difference in the world.

05/22/2026

Most people don’t make their biggest mistake in divorce in court… they make it trying to “keep things simple.”

Don’t guess your way through decisions that shape the rest of your life.

If you are facing Divorce in Ontario... call us: 1866 748-6363

05/21/2026

Calling ourselves “logical” doesn’t make us strong… it often just means we’ve learned to shut off what we feel.
And we wonder why connection feels shallow.

Why love feels distant.
Because you can build a life with logic…

but you can’t build love without emotion.

05/20/2026

Every marriage costs something.
We can invest in healing, communication, and growth now…
Or eventually pay the emotional and financial cost of tearing it all apart later.

As someone who runs a divorce firm, I’ll say the quiet part out loud:
The investment into a marriage will either pay for your children’s college…
or help pay for mine.

Harsh? Maybe.
But avoidance is expensive.

05/19/2026

Children listen to OUR nervous systems long before they understand our words.

They absorb the tension. The anger. The silence. The resentment sitting quietly at the dinner table.
And over time, their little bodies begin calling that feeling “love.”

That’s the part many parents miss.

The real question was never just “Should we stay together?”

It’s this:
Are our nervous systems safe enough to raise children inside of?

Because children do not need perfect parents.
But they do need regulated ones.

05/18/2026

The MOST important document is the Separation Agreement. This is the document that will formally and legally deal with our homes, our assets, debts and any claims for support.

Once the Separation Agreement has been formally negotiated, legally drafted, and properly signed... then you can apply for the Uncontested Divorce.

Now you understand why it is called "uncontested." Because by the time you get there... there should be nothing left to contest.

There is rarely such a thing as a GREAT divorce, but there are no shortage of BAD divorces.  Learn more about our financially focused and emotionally wise solutions for Ontario families.

The Common Sense Divorce
www.CommonSenseDivorce.ca
1866 748-6363

05/15/2026

There is rarely such a thing as a GREAT divorce, but there are no shortage of BAD divorces.  Learn more about our financially focused and emotionally wise solutions for Ontario families.

In Ontario, separation and divorce are two different things. Separation is the day that one spouse clearly communicates to the other that the marriage is over, with no intention of reconciliation…

You can still live under the same roof.

And that “date of separation”?
That date matters.

It becomes the financial line in the sand for:
Diving property, assets and debts.

The Common Sense Divorce
www.CommonSenseDivorce.ca
1866 748-6363

05/14/2026

Avoidance doesn’t make life easier… it just makes it smaller.

What we keep running from doesn’t disappear—it spreads into everything.
Face it… or let it quietly take everything from you.

05/13/2026

Niceness and kindness are not the same thing.
Niceness is often fear.

A need to be liked.

To keep the peace… even if it costs us ourselves.
Kindness is different.

It comes from strength.

From a place that doesn’t need approval to exist.
Niceness avoids conflict.

Kindness tells the truth.
Niceness disappears to be chosen.

Kindness stays whole… even if it isn’t.
And that’s the shift most of us never learned:

real love doesn’t come from being nice…

it comes from having the courage to be kind.





05/12/2026

I’ve been asked more times than I can count what I believe about God.
And the truth is… I don’t carry beliefs the way I once did.

I carry conclusions.
Not rushed ones.

Not borrowed ones.

Earned ones.
Because somewhere along the way, many of us were taught to inherit faith…

instead of discovering it.

And that’s where things, for me, quietly went sideways.
Some of us cling to certainty without ever asking the hard questions.

Others reject everything without ever doing the work to understand it.

Different paths… same problem.
No journey.

What I’ve come to see is this…
the soul needs the honest pursuit.

Because when we skip that part…

we don’t become spiritual.

We become rigid.

Religious.

Or just intellectually safe.

And safe doesn’t grow a human being.
So whether we land on God… energy… nothing at all…

the real question is whether we had the courage to go looking.

And then… the harder part…
To live like we actually mean it.
That’s where faith gets real.

05/07/2026

To the Mom's. To my own Mother..

To the mothers who hold everything together… often without being held themselves.

We see the weight you carry.
The love you give.

The parts of you that get put on pause for everyone else.

You are not just needed…
You are deeply worthy—especially on the days no one says it.

Let this be a reminder:
you matter, even when you’re not giving.





05/05/2026

Silence isn’t always peace.

Sometimes it’s avoidance… control… fear dressed up as “space.”
But there’s another kind of silence most people never learn.
The kind that comes when we stop chasing, stop explaining, and start respecting ourselves again.
One erodes connection.

The other restores it… starting with us.
Choose wisely which one we live in.









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