Citations:big divorce energy

Noun: "(slang, often derogatory) a psychological state stereotypically characteristic of a recently-divorced person"

 * 2019, Miles Klee, "2019 Will Be The Year Of Big Divorce Energy", Mel Magazine, 10 January 2019:
 * The longer you stare at an image like that one — and I don’t recommend it — the clearer this paradox becomes. It’s not that Bezos seems like an odd, wealthy bachelor who would never get hitched; it’s that for a couple of years now, he’s exuded what can only be termed “Big Divorce Energy.”
 * It’s confusing to find out he’s headed for splitsville when he strikes you as a dude who already has the first marriage in his rearview mirror. The updated clothes, the clean-shaven dome, the ripped revenge bod: “powerful divorced guy vibes,” as the Outline‘s Brandy Jensen put it.
 * 2019, Kaitlyn Tiffany, "Is Anyone Going to Get Rich off of Email Newsletters?", The Atlantic, 7 October 2019:
 * And as she goes on, she pulls out the personal part, which is that these weird and funny bits of psychoanalysis of strange older men is part of her own sexual history with “dads” and people who radiate, as she calls it, “big divorce energy.”
 * 2021, Alice Workman, "Thoughts and prayers", The Australian, 6 May 2021:
 * The Gates’s marriage has always had BDE — big divorce energy.
 * 2021, Katherine Cowles, "Zadie Smith’s stage debut is a filthy, feminist reworking of Chaucer", New Statesman, 22 November 2021:
 * Alvita, played with big divorce energy by an intoxicating Clare Perkins, swaggers around in a tight scarlet dress that – to use a phrase of my mother’s – she “falls out of” carefreely. Her voice is gravelly and feels like it could go at any moment, but not before she gives her husbands an earful, summoning each one for a bit of public humiliation. One is outed as a non-starter in the sheets, another as a fan of Jordan Peterson. Eek. The message is one of sex-positivity: Alvita has no time for “slut shamers” and “uptight churchy men” (Chaucer’s sermonising priests). She wants power and bodily autonomy; she wants – quite explicitly – to be satisfied.
 * 2022, Louis Staples, "How the 'divorced guy' became a meme and an identity", GQ (UK), 12 January 2022:
 * In the last few years, various articles have argued that 2019, 2020 and now 2021 were defined by “big divorce energy”.
 * 2023, Chelsea Ritschel, "Tom Brady divides fans after posting shirtless mirror selfie in his boxers to complete bet: ‘Get a job’", The Independent, 6 February 2023:
 * According to one person, Brady’s photo was giving off “big divorce energy,” while another person said: “One of the most divorced men of all time.”