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Geographies of Divorce: Never "my town" In 1981, James Taylor released a song called "Her town too" ( http://youtu.be/Be73MgBIhUM ) in which he expresses regret that his ex-wife is being excluded from social events because he holds greater social capital than she does amongst the people in the town where they once had a life together. When relationships end, it is a sad but true fact that people take sides, assets are split, and someone, if not both parties, must relocate. Taylor alludes to another type of collateral damage that I'm calling Geographies of Divorce . It's the shifting of boundaries, the renegotiation of territory, the displacement, isolation and the staggering trauma of homelessness that accompanies divorce. In my case Sweet Baby James can relax. The neighborhood I shared for almost 5 years with a man whose town it always was... was never MY town. But the geographies of divorce have tentacles that are still able to reach out and squee