Woman Celebrates Four Years Of 'Freedom' After Divorce, Calls It 'Divorce-versary'

Divorce is not simple in India. It comes with a lot of baggage, and people going through divorce suffer a lot post it.?People make judgements about other people's personal lives and choices. As a matter of fact, Indians have a tendency to peep into other people's lives, even though we have no relationship with them.?

Popularly, agony aunts can't stop making 'judgy' remarks about anything, whether it's pressuring a single middle-aged person to marry or condemning a married person who decided to split. But a woman changed?her story after her divorce as she is now celebrating four years of 'freedom.' Here's her story.?

Woman celebrates four years of freedom on 'Divorce-versary'?

A woman took a step forward in dealing with the stigma of divorce after going through one in 2019. She even labelled her "divorce-sary" social media post to honour her four years of freedom.?

Shasvathi Siva, a Twitter user and copywriter, shared a photo of herself enjoying coffee against a vibrant 'green' background.?

“4 years of freedom, and not taking it for granted for a single day. Celebrating a divorce-versary today. Happy happies to me!!!,” she wrote in the caption.

To provide some context, Shasvathi uploaded a LinkedIn post describing her 'amazing' journey that began after she opted to end her marriage in 2019.?

"I divorced four years ago today. Every year, I commemorate this day as my day of liberation, and it is very essential to me that I do so. "Not a single day has passed without me feeling enormous thankfulness for life every day for the past 1460 days," she confessed on the platform.?

She is currently running a Telegram support group?

Shasvathi discussed how going through a divorce helped her realise the country's deeply embedded stigma and how she saw it as her obligation to smash it.?

She further added, “I spoke about it (divorce) online, got the conversation rolling, and to date, I’ve conducted over 75 support group video and in-person sessions, and currently running a Telegram support group of 500+ participants, actively benefitting from the space.”?

Shasvathi has done her best to date to highlight the challenges that a woman or 'divorcee' encounters during the painful era while being criticised by a culture that does not accept divorce as a respected decision.?

Describing her personal experience, she came out to say that she wasn't good with being labelled as a 'divorcee,' which kept reminding her of the 'not-so-acceptable' decision she made years before.?

Today, Shasvathi runs an Instagram support group, #DivorceIsNormal for women who wish to chat about the issues of being recognised as a 'single lady' and not a 'divorcee'.

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