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  • It's a good reminder that things...

  • Things were good, and will be again.

  • They are good.

  • In 2016, over 800000 couple divorced in the US.

  • How many stay friends?

  • They both want to be friends.

  • I'm Sara Piergiuseppe, and today I'm gonna be looking at

  • my wedding pictures with my ex-husband.

  • This should be interesting.

  • We met through friends.

  • Well, technically, we met in a bar, but we knew people,

  • so it feels a little less sleazy.

  • She had a red top on.

  • I was smitten from go, and she was playing it

  • too cool for school.

  • It was not a match, at first.

  • I really wasn't interested, but he grew on me,

  • and he asked me out, probably like a month later.

  • Our first date was on August the 9th.

  • The rest is history, and now we're here.

  • Within, I'd say, about a year of dating,

  • we moved in together.

  • And then we got engaged, it was a year and a half later.

  • New Year's Eve, at a Black Crowes concert,

  • after one too many drinks, I said to her,

  • "I have no ring, I have no money."

  • "But I love you,

  • and I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

  • Will you marry me?"

  • She said, "Yes."

  • And, we woke up the next morning, she looked at me and said,

  • "You still wanna do this?"

  • I was like, "Yeah."

  • And my mom got sick, she got diagnosed with cancer,

  • and so we knew that she wasn't gonna make it.

  • So we actually did a Justice of the Peace ceremony

  • in December, but the wedding-wedding

  • I just wanted a big party.

  • It was wonderful, it was awesome.

  • So after we got married, he switched jobs.

  • Now we're working all the time,

  • we don't really see much of each other.

  • I'm getting up at 4:30 in the morning and I'm out.

  • I think the things that affected the marriage is,

  • just time away from each other between

  • his work and me doing theater.

  • I was just getting more and more frustrated.

  • Not with her.

  • More with just, I really don't like the way

  • my life is going at this point.

  • The marriage was good.

  • It was just, we got to a point we weren't

  • a married couple anymore,

  • we we're just two people living in the same house,

  • and it needed to end.

  • That was the end of the chapter.

  • He actually was the one that brought it up.

  • He was like, "I think we should separate."

  • It was really tough, it was not easy.

  • We basically went from roommates who get along,

  • to roommates who don't get along,

  • who don't even want to be in the same room with each other.

  • Obviously, it hurt.

  • But looking back, it was the right move for both of us.

  • I moved to New Orleans for six months.

  • I was not in a good place, drank way too much.

  • She was one of the people I turned to.

  • Why did you want to do this video?

  • I wanted to find a way for us to be friends.

  • I don't have a lot of people, and I don't want to lose this.

  • So I wanted to figure out a way to remain friends.

  • Just kinda looking forward to seeing these pictures

  • of people we haven't seen in such a long time.

  • I think it might just kind of

  • give a little bit of closure.

  • I'm a little bit nervous.

  • How are ya?

  • Yeah, super fun standing outside of the door.

  • Waiting for people.

  • - Yeah, I'm so patient. - Yes you are.

  • You know how patient I am.

  • I like this.

  • Thanks.

  • I think, Buffalo Exchange?

  • - Cool. - Cool.

  • So what lovely things did you say about me?

  • You're a terrible person.

  • I was glad to be out of this.

  • I don't know why I'm doing this

  • - Well, I'm super happy to be here. - I'm doing this for the money.

  • I'm gonna go.

  • Hopefully this isn't one of those things that,

  • in concept

  • It sounded like a good idea but now after looking at it,

  • we're like...

  • No, I think it'll be fine.

  • It'll be fine.

  • Let's look at pictures.

  • You wanna look at these?

  • Should we do it?

  • Alright.

  • I really seriously haven't looked at these in forever.

  • Aw look, there's your hair.

  • There's my hair, yeah.

  • What the fuck?

  • Honestly, there are a lot of people here too,

  • that we don't

  • - We don't see anymore or not hear anymore.- Don't... yeah... so.

  • You know, it's a good reminder that things...

  • Things were good, and will be again.

  • They are good.

  • I think that there's a stigma attached to divorce.

  • It's always gotta be bad,

  • and it doesn't always have to be bad.

  • You kind of can choose depending on the scenario.

  • Just have as much respect for yourself, and for the other person, as humanly possible.

  • Thank you for being here, and being you,

  • and not just walking away.

  • Same.

  • Thanks for sticking it out with me,

  • and wanting to still be my friend,

  • and making sure I was okay when I got back.

  • Always.

  • Cause I wasn't.

  • I know.

  • Could've easily gone the other way, and...

  • Okay, I'm gonna hug you.

  • Okay.

  • Okay.

It's a good reminder that things...

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