For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.
I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.
Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.
Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.
I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.
After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.
I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.
No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.
The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.
I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.
Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.
I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great.
Oprah deserves the best. I am not the best when it comes to divorce. What do I know about divorce? Nothing at that time.
I would never say I think divorce is wrong. After seeing what my parents went through, I would never want them to stay together just because they think it's the right thing to do.
After my first marriage ended in 2002 I went out with someone who made me feel very sexy. He was ten years younger than me and full of the joy of youth, which was wonderful after all the sadness of divorce, and a great confidence boost.
Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
By age 19, I was married to a high-profile, much older musician and was mother to a baby girl. Since then, I've been divorced, been a cheater, been cheated on, gotten happily remarried, and raised a couple of great kids.
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.
Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.
