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Weddings are events that we’re all fairly familiar with by now – you show up with a too-expensive gift in a too-expensive outfit, but you get a good Instagram and drink just enough free alcohol to almost make the event worth it. Now, apparently, there’s another formal event we have to ask off work for, because people are starting to throw divorce parties. 2016, this is where we are now.
As if making us sit through one event wasn’t bad enough, Jeff Becerra and Michelle Mahoney have introduced an entirely new level of awful to our social obligations. After 24 years of marriage, the couple decided to split amicably and threw a “divorce party” to celebrate their split. Their 18- and 20-year-old daughters helped plan the event, which featured booze, mugs, and handouts, all decked out with images of the former couple. Yep, personalized mini champagne bottles were distributed to help the couple untie the knot, and the former husband gifted his former wife a toaster as well.
What happened to good, old-fashioned hate between former lovers that didn’t include registering for the missing half of your possessions again at Target? Personally, I’d rather drink all of the booze alone, rip up some old pictures, and set up my Tinder profile, but to each their own, I suppose. As long as remaining civil enough with your exes to throw a party doesn’t become the social norm, feel free to break up however you see fit, and if you’d like to return that $30 Amazon gift card I mailed you the first time, that’d be cool too. .
[via Elite Daily]
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Pull the ultimate power move and invite the side piece to the party
The divorce wasn’t that terrible if they can stand each other enough to have a party together.
I saw the California license plate and it all made sense.
I saw the Saturn emblem and it all made sense
Seems like a solid excuse to have a rager and get blasted. I’m in.
Wish my parents threw a divorce party, instead they threw dishes at each other and their money away on lawyers
Jokes aside, I think it’s kind of cool that they’re trying to be amicable for their kids’ sake. If that means throwing a ridiculous party, then so be it.
This is actually genial because when you look at the divorce rate and attribute that to a trending analysis of how terrible our generation is with commitment, I can see myself attending a lot of these in the future if I live long enough.
Our generation has a low divorce rate compared to gen X and baby boomers.
We’re also not in our 40’s yet.
I yhink it’s just because our generation is still young and haven’t been married long enough to be getting divorced already. My parents had been married 25 years before they divorced
So she’s single now? Noted.
If you are into bull dike hair cuts give her a sup
This man is a Cuck