After graduation, to put my skills to use, I moved to Cairo, and then to Tunisia, where I just finished working with divorced women.

Interestingly, women initiate two-thirds of all divorces, and only half as many divorced women as men want to marry again.

The majority of these women (60 per cent) are married or cohabiting, 16 per cent are single and the remainder are widowed, divorced or separated.

But I'd only seen the word written down, and had assumed that it sounded like the name of my parents' blond divorced friend.

Other divorced individuals may have a series of cohabiting relationships without ever remarrying.