Supporting Friends Through Divorce

AshleyBrooke
3 min readApr 16, 2024

Most of us are no stranger to divorce, but I found that for my age group it’s becoming a thing happening among our friends rather than our parents and their friends. When no-fault divorces became legally acceptable in the 1970s and 1980s divorce rates were up to 50% of first time marriages, however they teetered off to about 40–45% in recent years. Though those numbers still seem high, no one who gets married imagines themselves being the divorced couple. So what do you do when you’re friend is going through it?

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AshleyBrooke

Princeton Theological Seminary, MDiv/MACEF 2020 Aspiring advocate, learner, and United Methodist. she/her/hers