A recent survey of divorced men and women uncovered something surprising: that divorced men are more than twice as likely to want to remarry as divorced women. I’m not entirely sure why this is so surprising, but I for one would’ve guessed that those roles would be reversed in this instance. Not so, apparently:

Divorced men are much keener to re-marry than their former wives, researchers found, with 47 per cent of men who had been through a divorce eager to wed again.

That’s more than twice as many as women, who seem to fall into the ‘once bitten, twice shy’ category.

Just 20 per cent of female divorcees say they want to tie the knot a second time.

So twenty percent verses FORTY SEVEN PERCENT. Uhh, WOW.

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This is, apparently, a thing.

One’s chosen Divorce (or Break-Up) Anthem, as you might imagine, is usually a song about empowerment. These songs have rousing choruses and lots of affirmative “YEAH!”s in them, and they typically recall tales of underdog protagonists who – after being stepped on, misused and abused – fight back, cast off what’s been dragging them down, and in the end emerge battle-scarred but triumphant.

But they can also be songs of resilience, survival, sadness, and personal reckoning. It all depends on where you are in the process, I think.

I’ll fully and freely admit to indulging in a few myself, if none exclusively. Here are a few of them – my Top 6 Divorce Anthems. In different ways, each of these songs helped me get through the hardest time in my life:

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