Most divorcees will tell you battling with a marriage break-up turns one’s life upside down. For many couples, though, they will be well into their 30’s when their marriage breaks.
So what happens when you are getting out from marital bliss in your 20’s, a time that your friends are sending wedding invites?
It’s lonely and alienating. Divorce, for those under 30, rarely comes with sympathy cards and coffee dates, social research says.
A divorced 20-something is, at best, not understood by her peers. At worst, she is stigmatized for failing at the very thing other 20-somethings are just beginning to master.
This exists even outside of the tangled web of dangerous social comparisons inspired by social media.
“Your love is still young, why would you be thinking of separation?” people oft
