Before any date, Radisha Brown would practice saying one sentence that felt like it carried the weight of the world: “I’m divorced.” For so long, the D-word has been treated like a modern scarlet letter—a mark of shame rather than a life stage that millions of people go through each year. Pop culture representations haven’t exactly helped: Divorced women are often portrayed as tragic, bitter, and in some cases broken.
So when Brown unexpectedly returned to the dating world in 2016, she braced herself for judgment—and came armed with defenses: No, she wasn’t “damaged.” She didn’t do anything “wrong.” In fact, she had done everything she could to “save” her marriage. “I was learning how to be a divorced woman in a world that doesn’t always know what to do with that title,” Brown tells SELF.
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