The Sh!t No One Tells You About Divorce: A Guide to Breaking Up, Falling Apart, and Putting Yourself Back Together

The humorous latest in Dais’s Sh!t No One Tells You series (after The Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy) digs into how to survive a divorce. Dais, drawing on the end of her 12-year marriage, offers strategies on how to get through the separation and successfully coparent. She recounts how after she and her wife agreed to separate, she found out her wife was seeing someone new and “exploded,” throwing out their carefully laid divorce plans and insisting on immediate decoupling. To avoid such rash outcomes, she suggests taking walks to clear one’s head. On dating after divorce, she encourages readers to be forthright with dates about what kind of relationship they’re seeking and to refrain from ghosting. Dais warns that coparenting might never be easy and admits she had to lower her own expectations: “Maybe landing somewhere between high fives and blatant animosity is not a horrible place to reside after the implosion of a family unit.” The guidance is largely geared toward separations in which both parents remain in the children’s lives, but the author’s animated style will appeal to anyone going through a divorce. One is unlikely to find a funnier guide to surviving divorce. (Jan.)