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10 Things You Should Never Say To A Divorced Woman

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"OMG. Do you think I'll get divorced, too?" Divorce is not contagious like the flu, dummy.
People say the most ignorant, insensitive things to recently-divorced women.

I won't go into the dirty details, but trust me when I say that my divorce was the saddest and most painful thing that's ever happened to me. What made it worse? The really dumb things that people would say when I told them my husband and I were no longer together. I'd like to think that their hearts were in the right place, but it's difficult to know for sure when their mouths were spewing such insensitive nonsense.

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