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Brian Galke On The Impact of a Relationship Breaking Down & Mediation

16 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a spoken monologue by Brian Galke describing the emotional and practical challenges after a relationship ends—prolonged uncertainty, conflict over settlement decisions, and the transition to co-parenting. He discusses mediation requirements in Texas, long wait times for mediators (Zoom sessions), and notes that life can improve (example: family trip to Italy) despite ongoing difficult days.

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And the problem, like anything else, is when you have too much time, you focus on what can be the negative things. So rather than, okay, it's done, it's time for us to move on. There was a lot of, when do we go to court? How do we settle things? So there was bickering before there was paper. Now the good news is we make way better co parents than we did being married. Nothing against her, nothing against me. It just wasn't meant to be long term. But when you live in that time where you're kind of in the void of, well, you're not single, but you're not married, what do you do? And it just seemed to drag on forever and ever. And, you know, it was a lot of. In Texas, you go to a mediator first before, and then if you can't agree, then you have to go to court. But the mediators were so backed up, I think we had to wait six months to have the conversation, and it was all done over zoom. But the good news is when it's done, it's done. Now is every day perfect? No, there's still a lot of days that, you know, we should remember why we're not married. But, you know, we're also at a place where we did. This past summer, we did a trip to Italy.