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Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

— Mariella Frostrup

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

— Alice Lowe

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

— Liz Smith

I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out.

— Chelsea Handler

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

— Louis Garrel

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

— John Updike

Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.

— Kate Hudson

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

— Barbara Bush

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

— Ram Dass

✗Opposing Perspectives

If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you'll be feeling what they're feeling. If you're separated, it's not a hard thing to do at all.

— Eve Ensler

Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.

— Marianne Williamson