There are ceremonies for births, marriages and death. We need better ones for divorce

October 29, 2026 — 11:00am

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Heartbreak is curable in a way that, say, being struck by a meteorite is not. You will eventually get over it. While it’s true that it once took me two years to get over a bloke I’d never met – Davy Jones, lead singer of the Monkees, when I was prepubescent – I did recover.

But how do you cope when the United Nations declares your love life a disaster area? Back in the ’80s, when a Melbourne boyfriend of mine turned out to be married, I secreted some prawns into the hollow curtain rail of his Sydney pied-à-terre.

A girlfriend lived across the road, which meant I could watch through binoculars as this duplicitous love rat went mad looking for the source of the odour. He took up the carpet and tore off the wallpaper. No longer able to bear the pong, he eventually moved out. From a safe distance, I then watched in gleeful joy as the........

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