As it drags on and gets more contentious I feel more like celebrating than when this started. I had hoped for a civil grown up divorce where we could actually still like each other. He had other ideas. Oh well. My friend is planning her divorce party for October so I can see how that goes.

I didn't celebrate the it dragged on and on. But the finalization was my victory in the battle that mattered. Custody. I didn't tell them the occasion but my daughters and I celebrated with a day at the river n ice cream n Top Hat BBQ.best ever.

No I celebrated by myself for myself - I still saw him, as we lived in the same commune, and we went to our divorce hearing together but it was very minimalistic because we had been separated for fifteen years - Ironically he married someone else with the same first name as me and who was the same age I was when we both got married - They are now divorced too.

I high fives my ex on the way out of the court room and then went home for some wine and hot bath.

I got a tattoo...the Bluebird of Happiness on my left shoulder. Took about a year to realize the HUGE favor that had been done for me! Thank You Other Woman!!!
And yes, about 4 years later I wrote her a letter telling her so. Would have done it sooner but friends were against it.........

I never did understand this. Celebration of failure?

I had a slice of cake.

I celebrated with the Champaign I bought for the anniversary he didn't come home for. Then I went on a month long purge. I still can't believe how much junk he accumulated in just 8 years.

August 31, 1996. I celebrate the anniversary with a glass of wine every year.

Not a party. But it was a great relief.

I remember attempting to sing "I can see clearly now the rain has gone"

None.... I know quite a few..... It's not necessarily a laughing bussines, that's my story and I am sticking to it

Who had enough money left to throw a party! ?

it took me three and a half years to track down the kids birth-mother and keep her in one place long enough to get everything finalized. And while it wasn't be design, the final papers were signed on the Friday before the kids and I left for a trip to Disney World.

Timing couldn't have been better

No partying for me. I was relieved it was over but I didn't feel I had to draw attention to it.

No it was a sad time-didn't want to party-30 years ago