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In short: no. I’ve been divorced, and broadly it mostly sucks and you lose different friend groups and all that. Eventually things pivot and adjust, and you find new friend groups, and while things are different, there’s a weird nostalgia to your late-30s if you’ve been divorced, and I think I’m generally good with words and still can never find the right ones to describe what it’s like to basically replace one group of people (and a person) with another group of people (and a person). It’s one of the weirdest things you will ever go through, honestly.
Now, when I got divorced virtually no money changed hands, because there wasn’t any money. In the two high-profile divorces of semi-recent vintage, that being the Seattle Separations of Bezos and Gates, there’s a lot of money on the table. Mackenzie Scott took hers, started giving away tons ($4B in four months), and then moved on and got married to a Seattle private school teacher, which is about as far from Bezos as one could realistically get, you’d imagine.
We don’t know yet what Melinda Gates is going to do, although early-stage stuff is saying they will run the Foundation together, etc. I don’t expect her on a yacht with Future anytime soon, but after 2020, we really have no idea what’s happening anymore and money is fake, so maybe her and Pete Davidson will indeed start up this summer.
