MINI: Divorce Parties are on the RISE

There is a new trend of people celebrating the ~negative experiences in their lives. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Maddie Jay still with us, Scotts. I say that like
you're going to pass away, don't ill he's holding on
by a thread.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
He's terminal. It's not long now, it's not long.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
A couple of weeks, hey, I.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Think, yeah, the mow less than two weeks, just to
manage expectations because people may tune in and go, hang
on a second, where has he gone? Yeah? I am healthy,
I'm happy.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
But do you we need to have a party to
celebrate that you're leaving.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh, that's a very good question. I think we should.
It would be remiss of us not to have some
type of an occasion to celebrate.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, this is going to bring me into exactly what
I want to talk about. There is an influencer and
I don't know if you've seen her online her she's
a Melbourne influencer. Her name is Adele Petropolis and she's
going viral at the moment for celebrating her wedding day
because she's a picture of her. She's holding up a
white cake. She's with all her friends, but on the

(00:54):
cake is written sheets don't get cake.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
She looks very happy, considering she's someone who's recently split. Yeah,
the wedding's not going ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, so she didn't say a lot. That was all
she did was say celebrating her wedding. And the cake
says cheets don't get cakes. So she's obviously found out
her partner has cheated on her. She's been like, stuff you,
there's no way I'm marrying you. But you can't cancel
wedding days and get your money back. So she's had
the date still and just thrown like a celebration party.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I think this is a great approach and Britain, as
I've always said, you know me, I've said this quite often,
at least once a day. When life gives you lemons,
eat cake. Well, there it is, write it down, put
it on my shirt. I think it's great because you
could be sitting there all glum by yourself at home,
being like this should be the best of my life.
And you know what, I'm going to have a party.

(01:44):
I'm going to celebrate. I celebrate a very special occasion,
which some people say could be sad, but for me,
I want to hear it. What is it's when I
got the snip, You haven't got the snip, or you
want to I've got the snip. Snip. Can I say circumcised?
I thought you might have sect to me that has happened. No,

(02:05):
I it was thirteen thirteen.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Didn't you get at an adult circumcision?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I was. I was grade one, So I celebrate that
every year thirteen. It's a special occasion. Yep.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
And why did you get it so old?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I was born? How do you say it's medically too
much foreskin? I don't know, it's a medical term, like
a little red riding the hood of my jumper was
too big.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Okay, well, let's that was a segue. Let's take it
back to the story of like celebrating these moments. I
love that you celebrate that, though Matt Psychologist Amanda Ferguson
says that it is actually really important to celebrate milestones
in life, but not just the good ones and the
bad ones. And there's been a real trend in divorce parties.
I don't know if you've seen that. People are trying
to turn the tables like I'm not sad that I'm divorcing, Like,

(02:56):
let's celebrate this.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Whenever I think of the word divorce, I think give
that image of Nicole Kidman, and I don't know if
that's real. But it's when she's skipping down the road
she's just divorced from Tom Cruise and she just has
pure elation on her face.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
I reckon that was probably a scene out of a
movie that they've taken and click baited it and said
that that was like after she just signed the or's papers.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I want to believe it's real because that must feel
so good when you can just relinquish the shackles, you're free.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I don't have anything sad that I celebrate. Actually, I
know Producer Grace's parents that want to have a divorce party.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, they're still technically married. They've been separated for fifteen years.
They haven't gotten around.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
To doing the paperwork, but.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
They plan on having a divorce party when it happened.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do you think there's like a limit on how long
you should be separated for when you get your divorce.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, you know, it costs like fifteen hundred dollars or
something to get divorced, and there's a lot of money,
does it. Yeah, they're like, well, it's it's not really
affecting our lives in any way whatsoever. They had a
very amicable split obviously.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, I mean, evidently if they're still friends fifteen years later. Yeah, well,
there you go. Hey, if you've been celebrated something, maybe
it's like a foreskin like Matt.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe it's divorced. We want to hear about it, So
give us a call. Hey, that is it from us,