H has a lot of ideas that divorce is some wonderful thing: H will have more money; I'll meet someone wonderful after the divorce; the kids will be happy, etc. I guess it makes him feel better about the affair/divorce. The weird, ironic thing is when he was 14 and his parents divorced he was actually suicidal himself so deep down I think he knows that's not true.
This must be textbook, because H has said the same thing, and watched his parents go through a nasty divorce themselves.
