Oh goody -- and now the draft e-mail that will go out to our friends hits my inbox. I get to "comment".
She seems to be enjoying this. I do think divorcee is in her minds a boost to her self-identity. It makes her "different" than most of our friends and family, and different is just a hop, skip and a jump away from interesting. There's some juice in that, for some weird, maybe not even healthy, reason. I don't think she'd ever reconsider, and I almost certainly wouldn't entertain it anyway, but one thing I know for certain is that the allure of being a mid-40s divorced woman with 50% custody of two still pretty young children will fade and fade pretty quickly.
Me: 46 W: 44 Married: 17 Together 21 D13; S10 BD: 03.03.15 (Not attracted to you) Almost 2 years trying, alone, to save marriage Status now: Divorced (effective 06.13.17)