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'

4 years of freedom, and not taking it for granted for a single day. Celebrating a divorce-versary today. ?

Happy happies to me!!! pic.twitter.com/fxcp5MFScb

¡ª Shasvathi Siva (@shasvathi) January 23, 2023

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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