It was oddly formal for facebook, but incredibly dignified.It was succinct, graceful, true as hell, and reminded people to play nice. Then the questions started. Choose your relationship status from the dropdown menu.
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Everyone close to us already knew, so we put up a message (and tagged the other one in it) saying that most people knew but yes we're getting divorced. Regardless of how silly it is, it does make me feel a bit better knowing it’s out there.I, like Wendy, was already in a relationship when I signed up for FB (Mr. 11 and I had been dating for over a year and living together for a few months at that point), so it’s interesting to see how this works.I’m planning on waiting until I’m engaged to put anything relationship-wise on facebook.
This is what most of my friends do, too.My boyfriend and I never discussed this topic, and neither of us have any relationship status on Facebook. Once you change your Facebook relationship status, it becomes a story on your feed. You don't have to pick sides. Never got any emails, never got any phone calls… people don’t feel the need to talk to each other because they get to see the person’s whole life in a nutshell on Facebook. After a lengthy but quiet separation, the divorce paperwork has been submitted. None of these things stopped him from sending me inappropriate messages and trying to convince me to “hook up” with him. On the date our divorce was finalized, I simply posted "Bittersweet, defined."How would you guys announce a divorce on social media while keeping it classy, and reminding others to play nice?In my case, I didn't post anything about my divorce on any social media during the process. That’s what I want to do anyway. They are a good warm up to the eventual "official" photo, but it's not a guarantee that you are dating. And if somebody doesn’t want to read my status updates, they can alter what content they see in their newsfeed. Log into the Facebook website. If you’re afraid of it then you’re probably not a very solid couple, but if you NEED to do it then you’re probably not my cup of tea.Then I had single for a while. On the other hand, if you update your status to "in a relationship" too soon, your guy will think you're either psychotic or creepin' on the side. Read more about it here... A new partnership between Seafarers UK and counselling agency Relate means seafarers and their families whose relationships are at stretching point from the stress of the coronavirus pandemic, can be referred for free relationship counselling. And I brought up Facebook and said that it was up to him whether we would do that and he said sure.
Again, this was while we were still living together and having naked time and all of that. We do not have any anger at each other, and though we wish things had gone differently, we are not blaming each other. But I do enjoy seeing people get together as well.I had only like 10 “friends” and they were people I rarely talked to anyway.
)Addie Pray, I know what you mean. Thank you.One strategy is to have both you and your former partner post the same thing:And then, when we got the divorce paper through we put up a selfie of us and one of the cats with it, pulling faces. For some reason, “in a relationship” seems cheesy or something to me. That's my favorite example, but we have lots of others from our Offbeat Home readers.Here's how one reader did it:The day the paperwork was final (1 month later), I posted that if someone felt like they needed to take sides and unfriend me, I would understand and to go in peace. I’m Facebook friends with his friends and he’s friends with mine. ahh. But saying something like “partner” seems to imply I have a lesbian lover.my boyfriend and i did it when we became exclusive. When we started dating there wasn’t so much gamesmanship with Facebook– people were pretty much just honest and upfront about things. We aren't sure what that looks like right now, but we do know that we are going to be the most epic divorced parents ever — book-worthy. And everytime I looked at me profile it just seemed pathetic. But eventually I gave in and we are “in a relationship.” It mattered alot to him, and I didn’t want to hold him accountable for my ex’s bad behavior. So you don’t necessarily have to announce it with a dedicated status post completely. Some people just don't need to know.