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“When I got a divorce, it turns out it was the beginning of a spree of divorces in my neighborhood amongst my friends. In a two-year period, five couples I knew in my neighborhood got divorces. All of them, to a tee, were couples that I thought were very happily married. It sparked a lot of frank and open conversations between me and my newly-divorced friends about marriage, relationships, and goings-on that I had never had before.”
“Turns out I was living a really dull and sheltered life. I was astonished at how much infidelity was going on, for example. There were shenanigans going on everywhere. Meanwhile, I’m over here wondering, ‘How would I even find the time for an affair, even if I wanted to have one?’ So, the takeaway for me was that couples can be very good an putting on a fake front of happiness. Don’t always believe the image they’re trying to project through all the happy Facebook photos. Don’t ever think you’re alone in an unhappy marriage. Find a friend you can confide in and talk to. It has definitely helped me since the divorce, though I wish I had done it beforehand. I thought I was alone, though.”
—u/framptal_tromwibbler
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahdobro/lessons-learned-from-divorce
