Comments on: Divorce is Becoming Cool http://faithandinches.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/divorce-is-becoming-cool/ Faith Space of Jim Goodman of aliveandfit.com Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:51:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: annmariefww http://faithandinches.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/divorce-is-becoming-cool/#comment-375 annmariefww Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:53:17 +0000 http://faithandinches.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-375 I definitely understand where you are coming from with this blog but I have to say that I have a slightly different mindset, which is very interesting for a person whom was brought up Roman Catholic in catholic school being taught that divorce is unacceptable. If I have learned anything in my life so far it is that there are very few absolutes if any in terms of people and their relationships with one another. I understand that when you get married you promise to be with one another for the rest of your lives but people change and things happen and I am a firm believer in you can’t help how you feel. I would rather two people divorce and move on with their lives then spend the rest of them miserable. We only get one shot at life why waste even a minute of it, because you will never get that minute back. I work for http://www.firstwivesworld.com, it is an online community of support and help for women navigating through the various stages of divorce and life thereafter and I love what I do and I have seen a whole new world of women whom feel like they are getting a whole new shot at life once they get divorced. The celebration is more about getting yourself out there and healing. A divorce is a very turbulent time in a person’s life and why do it alone? Celebrate your life and the idea that you were able to get yourself out of something that wasn’t so ideal and begin again. Check out our website and see all of the amazing women whom have given themselves new starts and how fantastic their take on life is now. http://www.firstwivesworld.com Just my two cents Ann Marie I definitely understand where you are coming from with this blog but I have to say that I have a slightly different mindset, which is very interesting for a person whom was brought up Roman Catholic in catholic school being taught that divorce is unacceptable. If I have learned anything in my life so far it is that there are very few absolutes if any in terms of people and their relationships with one another. I understand that when you get married you promise to be with one another for the rest of your lives but people change and things happen and I am a firm believer in you can’t help how you feel. I would rather two people divorce and move on with their lives then spend the rest of them miserable. We only get one shot at life why waste even a minute of it, because you will never get that minute back. I work for http://www.firstwivesworld.com, it is an online community of support and help for women navigating through the various stages of divorce and life thereafter and I love what I do and I have seen a whole new world of women whom feel like they are getting a whole new shot at life once they get divorced. The celebration is more about getting yourself out there and healing. A divorce is a very turbulent time in a person’s life and why do it alone? Celebrate your life and the idea that you were able to get yourself out of something that wasn’t so ideal and begin again. Check out our website and see all of the amazing women whom have given themselves new starts and how fantastic their take on life is now.

http://www.firstwivesworld.com

Just my two cents

Ann Marie

]]> By: Lyn http://faithandinches.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/divorce-is-becoming-cool/#comment-373 Lyn Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:32:35 +0000 http://faithandinches.wordpress.com/?p=188#comment-373 What a sad posting. I had never heard of a divorce party. Don't plan on ever going to one. It's pathetic that people would celebrate divorce in any way. The most aggravating item in the above post was the quoted part from a cnn link. That someone would write about divorce not being a failure but is instead a "life-affirming event" is just wrong. I don't want to hurt people by saying this, but divorce is failure. Somewhere in the relationship - before or after the wedding - both sides failed. I know it's usually one side that is more responsible than the other, but still divorce involves failure. As far as life-affirming events I can think of many more that are much better than divorce. What a sad posting. I had never heard of a divorce party. Don’t plan on ever going to one. It’s pathetic that people would celebrate divorce in any way.

The most aggravating item in the above post was the quoted part from a cnn link. That someone would write about divorce not being a failure but is instead a “life-affirming event” is just wrong. I don’t want to hurt people by saying this, but divorce is failure. Somewhere in the relationship – before or after the wedding – both sides failed. I know it’s usually one side that is more responsible than the other, but still divorce involves failure.

As far as life-affirming events I can think of many more that are much better than divorce.

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