Getting over my divorce? Studying the numbers helped
WHEN YOUR MARRIAGE BREAKS APART, A LONG TRAIN OF loved ones assure you that time will heal your grief. They are not wrong. But as a data journalist, I misunderstood them to mean the arc of that recovery would be linear.
In reality, I found, divorce is like penicillin: the bulk of the anguish passes through your system fairly quickly, but the dregs stick around much longer. Well after the heartbreak had abated, I was still afraid that I had missed my opportunity
