Divorcecation. Noun. Definition: After the successful conclusion of a divorce, one is more than entitled, even rightfully so, to effectively reset, through one invaluable and impactful means — provided a metamorphosis aptly named: divorcecation. It is here that one transitions: reeling from a divorce to a well-deserved vacation — being born anew and restored in the process. At the conclusion of the divorcecation, one’s rite of passage into a new “single” life has commenced and is utterly complete. Their mountain has been summited and the gold medal has been clinched. Now, the time has come - the divorcecation — where one can now savor the sweetness of a having a new lease on life. Synonymous with “divorcemoon.”
My divorce is officially final! I’m taking a divorcecation to the Bahamas!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
church hurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the church hurt that was inflicted on me as a child.