Let’s talk about your post-relationship adolescence

Sometimes after a divorce or the end of a long-term relationship, people go through what feels like a second adolescence. Not because they’re immature — but because they’ve spent years making decisions as “we” and suddenly get to ask “What do I actually like?” After a divorce or the end of a long-term relationship, did you go through a second adolescence — where you suddenly started experimenting with who you were, how you looked, what you liked and how you wanted to live? What did you do that made your friends or family say, “Eish… this divorce/long term relationship has changed you”?