Our attitudes and rituals around divorce deserve a rethink
Most people do not get married thinking they’ll become a divorce statistic down the road. But it happens. A lot.
And everything that has to happen before it’s announced – the separation agreement, the geographic move, the breaking-it-to-the-children – will need to take place in supreme secrecy, adding to the burden of it all.and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau announced their separation, I worried about the public response. And yes, some of the comments were ridiculous. There were a lot of juvenile “Justin’s available” jokes.
People mocked Gwyneth Paltrow for posting about her “conscious uncoupling” from Chris Martin in 2014. But the two of them were ahead of the game. As terrible as this sounds, you might even become envious of widowhood. At least someone whose spouse dies receives unqualified sympathy, without the taint of judgment. They get casseroles, for heaven’s sake.Obviously the death of a former spouse is not what I or most divorcing people would wish for. But the newly single do not need to feel humiliation on top of everything else.
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