How Divorce Affects Your Identity Even When You Think You’re “Handling It”

It happens in the smallest moments.

You are in the grocery store, standing in front of the pasta sauce, and you realize you have no idea which one you like. You’ve bought pasta sauce for years. Hundreds of times. And standing there now, with no one else’s preference to default to, you reach for one and then put it back and then stand there for longer than any reasonable person should stand in front of pasta sauce.