Paul C. Brunson

So the tactician in me would say, if I'm going to punch you, I'm not telling you the punch is coming.

So if you're going to divorce someone and there's going to be a fight, I want it to be that when you realize you're in a fight, the fight's over.

Like General Patton said, if you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

Like my job is ideally to have all the pieces lined up so that when you know you're, the other side knows you're in a fight, the fight's over.

Like they're in the valley and I've got high ground.

Human advice?

I think you owe it to yourself and to your partner to express where we're at and to say, look, I think we've reached the terminal stage of this where if this doesn't get fixed, if we don't make changes, this is going to have to end.

Like the things you sometimes have to do to shore up defenses and create levers are antagonistic to repair.

I think it depends.

See, I personally, I've represented extremely wealthy people for a really long time now.

Before that, I represented, you know, regular mom and pop type people.

I grew up poor, and I didn't have any money.

College, when I was in university, I worked as a waiter, as a server.

Like, I had nothing.

When I started my career as a lawyer, I borrowed $5,000 from friends and from my dad and built it into the multimillion-dollar thing that it is now.

And now, thank God, after 25 years of doing this profession, I have economic security, I have success, I have all those wonderful things.

I believe there are, and I say this representing, like I have a client who's worth $8 billion right now.

There are two amounts of money, enough and not enough.

So the first question you need to ask yourself is tactically, if I reveal to this person that this marriage is ending and I'm going to need to have us move forward with the demise of this marriage,

I need to protect myself, maybe because this person is the type who's vindictive.