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ROOKE: Gen Z Divorces Are Just As Abnormal As You’d Expect: No Shame, Quick Splits, And ‘Queer Solidarity’

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06.10.2025

Gen Z’s approach to life and love is the culmination of societal experiments that formed a generation into one giant Frankenstein’s monster, obsessed with mental health.

It’s easy to dump on Gen Z for being emotionally coddled toddlers who, despite living in the greatest, most advanced time in human history, still feel the need to be overly anxious and depressed. However, after reading The New York Times and Cosmopolitan’s pieces on the “trend” in Gen Z divorces, I can’t help but feel sorry for how badly we have let them down. Their entire lives have been one big social and emotional experiment, perpetuated on them without their consent, and it’s the primary reason we see stories like these plastered on the front page of our newspapers.

The New York Times featured a divorce story that wasn’t actually a divorce because the couple (or couples?) weren’t legally married, but were simply living together. A Seattle violinist, who uses they/them pronouns, wanted to break up with what I can only assume is her boyfriend, although that wasn’t exactly clear because while the outlet used male pronouns, we can’t trust that he wasn’t really a she. But that’s not even the worst part about this situation. The couple was actually a throuple (three people in a relationship), and sadly, the third person was a woman who was known only as a mistress.

“If you have to dump your ex-husband,” violinist Kira Benson told the outlet, “co-dump him with his........

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