D-I-V-O-R-C-E

There is more than one way to unpack a break-up. I’ve hosted a score of explanations for my parents’ dissolution, only to grab my kit and run for higher ground.

My mother and father had an old-fashioned mid-20th-century divorce — the kind where you have to sue each other and assign blame.

The rhetoric of “extreme mental cruelty” appeared in their court d…