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Day: January 8, 2015

January 8, 2015

Divorce Monday

The last two years I was married, I packed up the Christmas decorations into separate boxes – his and hers – anticipating that a divorce would occur that year.  We had made it through the holidays, with too-high expectations dashed and me choking down the bitter resolve to take action in the upcoming year to find a happier place for my family.  I was acting out the very cliché I see every year in January.  The first Monday of the new year is sometimes referred to as “Divorce Monday.”  The theory is that people contemplating divorce will wait until after
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