Enjoy This ‘Divorced Birds’ Subreddit

Divorce is hilarious! That’s why HBO made a whole show named after it (season 3 just started, SJP fans represent). It’s also why there’s a funny subreddit called r/DivorcedBirds.

It explores tropes you didn’t even realise you had stored in the back of your mind about divorce, breakups, mid-life crises and the struggle of starting over. It shows how we humans can see ourselves reflected in anything.

Every woman with a Facebook account has gotten a message like this one, posted with a photo of a secretary bird by redditor SlightlyControversal:

Hey girl! 🤗 I just discovered THE most amazing 🙌✨ vaccine-free 🧼🧼, non-gmo ❌☠, chemical-free 🧼🧼 mascara and now 💅⏳ I own my own totally legit 👍👌, 100% real business 🖨💸! Let me know 🗣☎ if you would like more 🧼🧼 info about this once ☝ in a life opportunity 💄 💋. #bossbabe 😆😂💦

And you can’t help but feel for this red-cheeked cordon-bleu, captioned by redditor purkinjeforest: “Sylvia knew that it was finally time to put herself out there and date again. With a tasteful touch of blush and a berry lip gloss, she headed to the singles mixer.”

Redditor FashiOnFashOff grabbed this screenshot from a nature video and wrote, “After spending so much time and money advocating for split custody, Charles was beginning to rethink his decisions.”

On r/DivorcedBirds you’ll see:

• birds who regret nothing
• birds battling lawyers
• birds with boob jobs 
• birds who cried off their mascara
• birds in skinny jeans
• birds who remind me of that TV Show Californication
• birds taking one last look at the family home
• birds who are tired of your lies
• birds taking it out on the kids
• birds who always relied on the wife to cook
• birds who still shop for two
• birds that almost made me cry
• birds with a Bluebeard vibe
• birds who are screaming at you
• birds from bizarre angles
• birds dressed for an ex-husband’s funeral

The subreddit was inspired by a one-off joke in 2018:

My new thing is finding birds that look like they are twice divorced pic.twitter.com/IYKmIplUFv

— Cheish (@TheCheish) January 21, 2018

After falling quiet, the subreddit recently enjoyed a resurgence, so you’ll see a lot of new pictures of divorced birds on the front page. It’s a solid collection of jokes, and great motivation to stick with your partner forever.

If you like that, you might also like the subreddits r/Birbs, r/BirdsBeingDicks, r/BirdsWithArms, r/PartyParrot, and r/CatsWithJobs or the bird collection on humour/education blog Wait But Why.