Today, the first working Monday of the new year, is the day upon which more people file for divorce than on any other. Couples have spent their Christmases holding onto the cliff-face of failing marriages by their fingernails, and they finally make a resolution to themselves and to one another to throw in the carabiners (really trying not to mix metaphors…). Perhaps they went into the holidays entertaining two possible, equally fantastical outcomes, (i) a blissful future together or (ii) an exciting future apart, but, having put as much effort as they can muster into playing happy families, they end the season with just one fantasy in contention, opting for the unknown adventure over that which is familiar: a future apart.