What happens to friendship when?

What we all want is health relationship with someone we can trust with our lives and bank accounts? But what happens when one or both wants to call it quits? What happens to the bank accounts? The mortgages?

It just seems that since one would feel the need to leave the relationship and the home that was built for two? One can't think for one second that everything suddenly belongs to the one that stayed, can one?

What do you do with someone who refuses to talk about selling the assets that both have made over the life of the relationship. It enough to drive both crazy. In certain situations both feel that both are correct in the motives, and actions. How can we not?

But sometimes the need for lawyers to become the mediators because when it's suggected that we start thinking about the future, it's time to talk about reconciliation, or not. What can we do if counseling is not even agreed upon?

Enough time (18 months) and enough tears one would hope on both sides have been shed. Just how do we bring to close 15 years after all is said?