mamabear….I was, also, the first in my family to divorce...including the entire extended family....I had, also, moved away to the suburbs of a large city.....so, my choices seemed to be an aberration, to them....something that they had never dealt with. I will admit that being hundreds of miles away made things easier for me. I got to control how much of my personal details that they received.....
Over time, they just got used to it...