Amicably separated. Very few people accept that I am fine and I don’t need to talk about it.
Most of my friends want to mine me for information that either doesn’t exist or I don’t want to give them. Some questions are very intrusive. Can’t wrap my head around the NEED to know whether I’m going to have other relationships in the future when my marriage has only just ended, for example.
These are all people who are not usually like this. Is there a morbid curiosity that means people need to perform an autopsy on a broken marriage? This is having more of an impact on my mental health than anything else right now. I need a social life, but not one where my marriage is all people want to talk about.
I need some stock phrases that aren’t too blunt. “STBXH and I have talked it all out. I want to focus on the future” or similar isn’t working as the lines of questioning just carry on. I wish it felt like it came from a good place. But it just feels that above all else they just want to KNOW.