I’ve said all along that there can be a driver and a passenger in a divorce – someone who wants the action and is pressing it, and someone who is being dragged along against his or her will. In most divorces except the most amicable, and even in some of those, there is an instigator and a responder. In fact, the court system makes this distinction between the “petitioner,” the person who initiates the legal proceeding, and the “respondent,” the person who answers the petitioner’s request.
In the Katie Price-Peter Andre debacle (and I think it has reached “debacle” status as this is my fourth posting in the last two weeks and my second in as many days), Ms. Price had initially positioned herself as the driver. It had been her decision to divorce, her choice to hire a pit bull divorce attorney, and her substantial fortune to protect from division. However, in the last day or two, she appears to have had a change of heart, if published reports have any validity. Now, she wants Mr. Andre back, and she will evidently do anything to reconcile with him.
Enter Mr. Andre. Whereas he had once been relegated to the role of the manipulated spouse who had no choice but to jump on the train, lest he get steamrolled by that train, he now assumes the posture of the driver. Before, he had to respond to Ms. Price’s choices whether he agreed with them or not, and initially he did not. Now, however, he is possessed of the power that she had previously held. The ball is in his court. Ms. Price asked for a divorce and Mr. Andre, like any sensible spouse, wisely decided not to stand in her way. How can she blame him now for doing exactly as she asked?
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