Decision Fatigue in Divorce: Why Exhausted Choices Cost You Later
About this episode
Andrea Vacca discusses decision fatigue in divorce and emphasizes the importance of protecting mental energy to make better choices.
You sat down to review the proposed parenting schedule, read the same paragraph three times, and told yourself you'd come back to it. But you didn't. Or worse, you said yes to a proposal, not because it was right, but because you were done. In this solo episode of A Better Divorce Podcast, Andrea Vacca names the specific kind of exhaustion that shows up in divorce. It isn't sadness or fear. It's quieter than that, and it's more dangerous, because financial arrangements, parenting schedules, and asset splits don't come with do-overs. Andrea reframes decision fatigue as a predictable byproduct of a process that asks too much of people already running on empty. She's watched clients who run large corporations and navigate Fortune 500 boardrooms freeze when asked to choose between two custody provisions, proof that depletion doesn't care how capable you are. Reactive choices made in that state, she explains, are usually deferred regret: the client who rented a new apartment before any agreement on how two homes would be paid for, or the one who said yes in the third hour of a mediation session only to reverse it days later, seeding months of distrust and renegotiation. The heart of…
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