The way my divorce utterly *savaged* the sheer foundation of our close friend group still breaks my heart to this day. Ex-husband wholeheartedly believed the friend group would wholesale replace me with his new girlfriend, who is significantly older and at odds from a lifestyle and values perspective, and it backfired. Both for them, who are never around to nurture those long-standing friendships, and me, because people do not know how to navigate such a fraught situation. Everyone lost out.