Divorce. Such a stigmatized word...and such a misunderstood relationship status update, isn’t it? I think many, if not most, people associate divorce with failure. I know I did at one time.
My parents remained married until my father passed away…four decades of a life I still think would’ve been better spent separately. I think my dad thought he would be failing me if he left his marriage. As for me, I certainly didn’t plan on becoming a single-parent statistic. I thought that I would keep things together at all cost……because I didn’t want to fail at marriage.
The only thing I was failing at though…was failing to understand that I wasn’t losing at anything….because divorce, in most cases, does not equate to failure. It’s not a game. It’s simply a diverging of a road….and we are all handed different maps with which to navigate through life.
That’s all.
