Marriage Is War: Divorced Women Share Their ‘Return From Battle’ Stories

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Some divorced women—and even a few still married—have taken to calling marriage a war and themselves wounded soldiers. One woman who married in 2013 and divorced in 2021 kicked off the conversation by asking fellow “return soldiers” when they came back from the battlefield. She joked that it’s better to return alive but wounded than to come back in a coffin, adding, “God loves divorced people.” Others chimed in with their own bruising tales—some even recounted two failed marriages, while a few still married but yearning to leave joined the discussion.

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