Fear in divorce may be the number one cause of a poor outcome.  Fear can manifest through our clients in many forms: victimized, aggressive, impatient, controlling, disorganized, overly organized, or detailed, cold, and uncaring, non-committal, just a hot mess, several of the above, all of the above. Especially where personality disorders reside, fear certainly can inflame and embolden bad behavior.  But like  a child’s belief in a monster under the bed, the fear is real, it just may be out of proportion or based on fantasy