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Moving on from Divorce

Aman
3 min readMar 3, 2019

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Divorce is a life crushing experience, and I would never wish on anyone.

However, there is a great gift in divorce; it is such a public failure that any other future failures pales in comparison.

Divorce is the only large life failure which we willingly to share with others around us, even strangers sometimes.

We usually do not walk around, introducing ourselves to others and admit every exam we have failed, if we have stolen makeup from a drugstore as a teenager, gossiped about a loved one, had an affair, neglected a loved one or intentionally hurt another person for our own gain, but we do admit to being divorced.

Divorcees tend to take one of two routes:

One, where you were the victim and did absolutely nothing wrong, with your ex being the villian, to their very core and the second, where you try to see your contribution to the collapse of the relationship.

I believe that it takes two hands to clap; I am not absolved of responsibility from participating in a failed marriage, but this is because I am big enough to admit failure. Everyone contributes to all relationships in their life; nothing can simply happen to you, you are…

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Aman
Aman

Written by Aman

I write about issues that are near and dear to my heart, with the hope that my stories, experiences, and struggles may empower others.

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