Reverse Bachelorette Parties Becoming the Growing Trend with Jersey Divorcees
A MILLION LITTLE THINGS - The girls decide to throw Katherine a celebratory divorce party.
Everyone is always looking for a celebration. If there’s a reason to celebrate, have at it, even if it’s not something you would normally have a party for.
According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, there may soon be another reason to buy presents.
In New Jersey and across the country, 50% of all marriages end in divorce. It’s a pretty safe bet you may soon be picking up something for a friend’s divorce party.
According to WSJ, the events are picking up steam. They tracked recent divorcees who wanted to mark being released into the wild with a party. The Journal said they were like a “reverse bachelorette party” and followed Brandi Sellers, who recently had her post-marriage celebration.
There were fake rose petals to be thrown around, a “Bye Felicia” banner. There were also photos of pairs of penguins torn down the middle. “I ripped the penguins in half because penguins are monogamous birds who are supposed to mate for life. Well, I’m not your penguin anymore,” she said.
Retailers like Amazon and Etsy have taken note of the trend, offering divorce party essentials. They have sashes for the guest of honor that include one that reads “End of an Error,” and balloons reading “Divorced AF.” They reported that on Pinterest, searches for “divorced dad aesthetic” jumped $300 this past June compared to last year.
Divorce lawyer Nicole Sodoma is the author of the book, Please Don’t Say You’re Sorry. She told the Journal, “People have really decided to nip that societal shame of divorce and instead embrace being divorced as another stage of life that some of us experience.”
While both women and men are taking part in the trend, it certainly skews more toward women.
Kris Marks, is a mental-health facilitator. He says, “As a guy, we don’t call it a divorce party, we call it ‘Let’s go for drinks.'” He adds, “We just cope differently.”
I somewhat agree with Kris, I would not celebrate a failure of mine, but if it works for someone else then they should definitely make it happen.
Tom Cruise: His 5 Wildest Roles
Tom Cruise is one of the greatest action stars of our time. Cruise began acting in the early ’80s and made his breakthrough with leading roles in the 1983’s Risky Business and 1986’s Top Gun. His upbringing wasn’t the glamorous life he has now. He grew up in near poverty with his three sisters, moved around a lot, and his father, as he described, was “a merchant of chaos,” a “bully,” and a “coward” who beat his children.
Tom’s Pursuit of an Acting Career
At 18 years old, Cruise moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. He then went to Los Angeles to try out for television roles, signed with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), and began acting in films. His first movie appearance was a small role in 1981’s Endless Love with Brooke Shields. Later that year, he landed a major supporting role as a crazed military academy student in Taps with Sean Penn. 1983 was a big year for Cruise, landing a role with an ensemble cast in The Outsiders, All the Right Moves, and the career-making Risky Business.
With 50 acting credits under his belt, Cruise has been in a movie almost every year for the last 42 years. He shows no signs of slowing down, with Mission: Impossible Dead – Reckoning Part Two set to release on June 28, 2024. Cruise famously performs his own stunts, including some crazy ones in the Mission: Impossible franchise. He has put his life at risk in order to capture authentically thrilling action scenes time and time again without the use of CGI. As Cruise told Telegraph recently, “I want to give everything. To have that experience, to see that it communicates to an audience when it’s real. It’s different. There’s stakes, there’s real stakes.” Love him or hate him, Tom Cruise goes all in on every role he takes on.
See below our 5 picks of Tom Cruise’s wildest roles. Note that these aren’t the ones that are the most highly acclaimed, or even his most famous ones.
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