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“As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives
by todipa 8y ago
“As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,”
What does loving exploration mean?
- matte_black 8y agoSearching deep in oneself for the love that once existed.
- pen2l 8y agoOh boy, it hurts me when you put it like that, no matter who it is who is searching for that
- baxtr 8y agoActively searching in some cases and simply waiting and hoping in other cases
- matte_black 8y agoSome will never find it, they’re all too busy looking.
- toufiqbarhamov 8y agoAnyone who has been through a bad divorce, as a spouse, child or friend of a spouse will know what it means. It’s the difference between trying to find a way to change a relationship in a way that allows for it to continue, and something acrimonious. A lot of divorces are pretty ugly, often involving infidelity, loss of interest or financial troubles. Sometimes though, people just find that they’ve (to use a popular metaphor) grown apart. Two and a half decades brings a lot of life experience and change to a person, and it can be that a couple finds they’re no longer romantically compatible even if they still love each other. I take this statement then to mean, at face value, that this is a mutual decision being made after attempts to salvage the relationship have indicated a need for change. Of course people also lie to put the best spin on things, but in this context I can only speak to the statement itself, not its veracity.
- morley 8y agoI've seen this divorce story posted, flagged, and taken down from the front page maybe 3-4 times now. And rightly so: it's a private matter that seems out of place on an aggregator for tech news. The level of discourse in those flagged submissions never rose above the level of a TMZ gossip column. Dragging this submission out and using it as a pretext to discuss the divorce just seems perverse.
- hirundo 8y agoShut up, he explained.
- markbnj 8y agoPerverse? The poster was simply wondering what a phrase Bezos used in his own public announcement might mean. And I think developments in the private life of one of the world's richest men, CEO of a near-trillion dollar corp and operator of the world's largest cloud platform, are fair game on HN.