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James Sexton

Disciplines:
law/family law
law/divorce law
relationships/relationship advice

Summary

American divorce attorney who has represented thousands of divorces and parlayed that experience into relationship advice writing — arguing that knowing what destroys marriages is the most practical guide to maintaining them.

Core Contribution

Applies forensic divorce attorney knowledge — the specific behaviors and patterns that end marriages — to practical relationship advice, making the pathology of failed relationships into a prescriptive guide for successful ones.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Divorce Lawyer as Relationship Expert (inverts the usual qualification: argues that someone who has seen thousands of marriages fail forensically has more practical insight into what destroys relationships than therapists who see people after problems emerge)

Notable Works & Achievements

How to Stay in Love

Historical Influences

Legal practice tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Family Law Self-Help Literature Relationship Advice Genre

Contemporaries & Peers

Esther Perel Stan Tatkin John Gottman

Minds Influenced

Relationship advice readersMW relationship content

Intellectual Posterity

How to Stay in Love

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