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People's attitudes when you're single again?

27 replies

Milly22 · 02/04/2013 00:20

Just wondered if people change towards you after a divorce when you're gaining loads of confidence, feeling sexier and happier and laughing again with a lot more time to yourself due to sharing custody of dc with ExH. Did anybody lose any married friends over this and made new single friends?

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ohtobecleo · 02/04/2013 21:03

My friends never treated me differently but I definitely found that when my DS started school the other mums were very chilly with me (and clicky with each other) and the only reason I could think of is that I was the only single mum in the group(and clearly must have been gagging to shag all of their husbands because of my single status).

Beaverfeaver · 02/04/2013 21:30

I honestly don't understand women who would forget a friendship if their friend had become divorced.

I have been with DH for 12 years and in that time I have the same friends, some new, have become very close with some girlfriends, boyfriends, some of which don't work out.

But I am always there for any one of them if it doesn't work out, and I would very much hope they would do the same for me if it happens to me.

I don't pity, I just make sure things stay as normal and fun as they ever were before and help the bad memories become distant memories

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