When anyone has told me that they’re getting a divorce, my knee-jerk reaction has always been to respond, “I’m so sorry.” This feels like the absolutely natural response. Because news like this never feels like good news. And while this isn’t great news, this is also not a tragedy. A relationship has run its course. There are far worse things. We all spend a lot of time in this life focusing on success and failure. And divorce, by its very nature, seems like a failure. I’ve been thinking a lot about this (as you might imagine) and honestly what’s the failure here? Because it didn’t last
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