Thrilled isn't perhaps the right word about the divorce itself for me. I "am" thrilled about finding out that there is a great big wide world that I've not experienced before.
I agree with kml and doodler though that while we would have preferred reconciliation and have accepted a divorce that wasn't our original idea, being able to put some of the - in hind-sight - dysfunctional parts of the relationship behind us has been a load lifting.
Since I'm the man of a 1000 phrases, one I use is "you never know you're living under a cloud until you walk in the sunshine".
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells
