The May 16, 2017 story: We need to make more effort in knowing what people are going through

Almost 14 years to the day after I graduated from college, I was sitting at a bar solo post-divorce. Here's what I ruminated on.

I got divorced in March 2017. Or, well, rather, we decided to divorce in that month, and then we lived together for like 29 days of it. The arc of how that happened is detailed here.

I didn't want to stay in the apartment we shared, but I also didn't want to move really far away or anything. I had a few dog walks in this period where I contemplated going…