Separation and divorce can be a grueling experience. Spouses who once loved each other can be swept up by an adversarial system where they declare war on each other, forgetting all that was good between them and disregarding the needs of their children. It doesn't have to be that way. "When our marriage failed, my ex-husband and I tried an unusual arrangement to keep our family together. We share a house. He lives upstairs, I live downstairs, and our young children and dog float between us. It is unorthodox, but we've discovered we're part of a growing number of couples who, for the sake of their children, are creatively reconfiguring their families." -Cate Cochran This book explores the lives of ten "succesfully failed" marriages where the parents have done all they can to reconfigure their families after divorce in order to protect their children.