A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there’s less of you.

The simile frames divorce not as a clean break but as a bodily trauma: something done to survive, yet leaving permanent loss. By likening marital separation to amputation, the line stresses that even when divorce is necessary or life-saving, it can still entail grief, disorientation, and a changed sense of self. The “less of you” suggests that intimate partnerships become integrated into identity over time—shared history, routines, and mutual recognition—so their removal alters one’s wholeness. The bluntness also resists romanticized narratives of liberation, insisting on the mixed reality of endurance and diminishment.