Don't feel enticed about getting 'some compensation damages' vide which you may want to 'secure' your future.
These entitlements are previleges and not right de facto!!
In reality, the exercise of winning some compensation for damages also makes additional damages in due course!!!
What about those additional damages?
So resolve it amicably if possible, unless other party has done something in-human and atrocious thing to you and to which you feel that it is not condonable at all and they be brought to justice whatsoever it may take and collateral damage!!!
But 'broadness of your mind' as above, should not also become your weakness and other party becomes shamelss to take it for granted.
Retaliation is not a violence (So don't be grappled with over consciousness on non-violence or ahinsa. Ahinsa doesn't say 'don't retaliate to other's misdeeds'. )
Take a call and wait for some time and do not make any thoughtless moves to deteriorate the situation further. Maintain your composure and calm is the main thing here.
If you were assured of yourself that you were the wronged party and a genuine victim ....... You won't raise doubts. That's why you are askin questions and trying convince yourself to come to decision.
One thing is sure that no one can compel the other to cohabit. So be assured on that.
Then remains the question as to how to break apart.
Also .................whatever people advise, you would invariably infer the way you wish it to, the way you find it convenient. This is how you will foster you opinion (whether it is a right or wrong decision in reality. Even criminals finds some excuse to convince themselves and their inner conscience and only then they commit crime!!! ...................... Same is true for good acts also ............ Whether society opposes/scare them or not ........................... they just go ahead and pursue that good cause !!).
For each decision there something to gain and something to lose.
If you ask opinion, every person who has iterests in it, would give you a opinion based on their own interests!!!
whos' that every person? (it includes parents, relatives, friends, inlaw, spouse, neighbors, councellors, lawyers ) each has one or the other kind of interest to be benefited from you at your your cost.
Take Example of parents and relative:
They also want to safeguard their image in public!! So they would try to protect that also. Here they don't have commercial interest but atleast social interests!! ....................................'chhoti ki shaadi bhi to honi hai! .......... biradariwale kya kahenge' etc.
Brother: 'paraya dhan wapa ghar mein!' ......... 'baap ki sampatti me hissedar aaa gaya!' (Brother may hate the come back of his married-sister) ......................... Many permutations on either directions!!! .........................................'I would teach a lesson to my brother-in-law for the sake of my sister's tragedy ........ I love my sister the most!!'
How a lawyer would look at your case? ............ (Please Don't ask me to answer it!! 
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