The following blog is from author Ellen Rosner Feig: Soon after it became clear to me that my 17 year marriage was truly over, I began to reach out to others who were going through separation and divorce. I have never found support groups to be of much benefit as they tend (and this is simply my experience) to become whine-fests filled with complaints, unresolved anger and pity. So instead of spending evenings on hard backed chairs listening to sad tales of lost love, I began to chat up ...