56. Divorce Without the Shame

🎙️ Hot Flash Chronicles – Episode: Divorce Without the Shame 💔✨ Six divorces between the two of us, and here’s what we’ve learned about endings, resilience, and why you don’t owe anyone your story

In this raw and honest conversation, Angie and Shelly dive into the topic of divorce—the stigma, the shame, and the reality of moving forward when a relationship ends. Between them, they’ve walked through six divorces and came out the other side stronger, wiser, and with zero shame. This isn’t a “how-to” guide, it’s a real talk about why relationships end, what healing looks like, and how to let go of judgment—both from yourself and from others.

💡 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

💔 The Stigma of Divorce – Why people react the way they do when they hear the number, and how that’s changed over the years

🧠 Shame, Therapy, and Growth – How therapy helped reframe divorce from failure to evolution

👩‍👧 Women and Options – Why “staying married forever” in the past often meant women had no choice but to stay

🌱 Lessons from Each Marriage – What we learned from young, impulsive decisions, fixer-upper partners, and growing apart

❤️ The Right Partner Feels Different – Why finding someone who celebrates your “too muchness” is the real game changer

🪞 Self-Reflection Matters – How taking time alone helped us break toxic patterns and recognize our worth

🚫 No More Shame – Why divorce is not a failure—it’s simply the closing of a chapter that no longer served you

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💬 Divorce is hard. It can be heartbreaking, complicated, freeing, or all three at once. But it is not a failure. Have you been through it? Are you going through it? Share your story with us—we promise, no judgment here.