About the only thing you can do at times. Is to say to yourself and comprehend. It could always be worse. It satisfies nothing but it is also true.

For example we could trade problems.

I had a major encroachment occur in the last week. On a property. It will be hard to get it straightened out. Plus have two supreme court cases coming up. Here in Canada. At best I can only recover a third of our legal costs. You can never be certain of prevailing either. Even when it looks obvious.

When you are in legal disputes where the opposition is not paying their legal bills directly as individuals. There is less willingness for them to settle out of court. In my mind nobody really wins. You just reduce your losses at best.