So after many talks about the state of our relationship and reflection on how the relationship was failing and how that failure was affecting us, Jena and I decided to get a divorce.



I’ve never divorced anybody before so I’m not sure of the exact protocol on how to break the news to friends but since this is the age of social networking and oversharing we just posted that shit to facebook. Here’s what Jena posted. It’s very thoughtful, well written and lovely –







and here’s what I posted –

This is gonna be a pretty short post but I just wanted to say a few things to friends that had any questions.

– Yes, we’re going to be friends. We still like each other. We still love each other. That love isn’t enough to make a life partnership work. We found that out before we stuck to it too long and started hating each other. That would have eventually happened.



– If you want to know the reasons our marriage fell apart, they’re complicated, intricate and boring. If you’re still curious, take one of us out for a couple of drinks and we’ll tell you.



– It’s totally the child’s fault.



– Gays being able to marry are also to blame.



– We would both like it if you didn’t trash talk the other person. You may think it’s helping but we still care for each other. If anything, wail about what fools we are to give up such a perfect mate.



– This website will still continue indefinitely with both of us updating but possibly with less frequent updates. Mon-Wed-Fri worst case scenario. Most of Jena’s info will be moved over to jenayoung.com .



– No you don’t get your wedding presents back. We spent the Target gift cards and one of the two rice cookers is already ruined. In fact, divorce gifts would be great since we need to split our possessions now.



Thanks for all your kind words. Now we’re both on to new chapters in our lives.