Divorce can radically alter lives. We dedicate years of our lives to someone in the name of love. We compromise and give ourselves towards a strong, eternal partnership. But sometimes, it just doesn't work that way. Two people just might not be right for each other despite their best efforts. Consequently, they go through the courts to officially split up. Maren Morris is currently dealing with this over her ex husband Ryan Hurd. However, there's one understated aspect of divorce that really makes the whole process much more complicated than it needs to be.
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Recently, Morris spoke on the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast, where she opened up about her split from Hurd. There, she openly talks about how going through the process in a city like Nashville can cause friction. They both have mutual friends in the city. As a result, Maren deals with people drawing lines in the sand between each side of the party. You might think that having allies would be an easier thing to process. However, she believes that it only makes things weirder.
Maren Morris Opens Up About Friends Taking Sides During a Divorce
"In Nashville, you know I've been divorced for a little over a year now. It's a small town, and we're all friends, and we all work together, and the music industry is very tiny there," Morris says.
"Just in terms of respect for each other," Maren continues. "I saw a really close friend of my ex's at a bar a couple months ago, and I was with my best friend. We all used to hang out together for a decade or more and then it's like, 'Damn, it's just going to be kind of weird.' Maybe it's just going to be weird for the first few years."
Sometimes, though, it's just people don't match each other in the same way as we grow. Maren describes it as being "energetically aligned" the older we get, causing us to fade from each others' lives. "I have these people who have been my ride or dies but I feel like COVID changed a lot of people, when I had my son I could feel people fall away," Morris adds. "I think when you have kids sometimes, as a new mother, it's already such a lonely time and you're very isolated plus it was COVID. But I certainly made friends who are moms through the process."
