7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato
Aug 6, 2026 · 9 min · 6 segments
After his first marriage ended, Aaron made himself a promise: he would never get married again. Then Cori came along. Still afraid of repeating the past, Aaron turned to an unlikely source for…
Now, looking at the data that's out there, the most recent statistic that I read was that nearly 40% of marriages in the US end in divorce.
And frankly, I don't know how the other 60%, how those marriages are doing, if everybody's happy.
My point, though, is to hedge my bet on essentially a 50/50 shot puts me in a vulnerable position.
And so when I was trying to navigate through the separation from my first wife, I was in freaking shambles.
My parents are human, but it was like shattered freaking glass inside and outside the house.
So all I could think was, "Oh, that's how it's gonna go." And so my number one priority when my first wife and I were separating was to make the transition so easy, so seamless, so full of compassion and love and grace for my daughter as possible.
I wanted to turn a bad situation into, uh, at least a good situation i-in, in, in the best way that I could for her.
And frankly, I think we did a pretty good job, and I'm proud of th- what we have done a-and how we've been able to work as co-parents from that moment, and my daughter was one when we got divorced, until now.
But at the time when I was getting separated, when I was looking out at my future relationships, like what was love gonna be like for Aaron in the future, I made another promise to myself.
I promised myself I would never get married again because I didn't wanna go through that again.
I couldn't bear that pain and the broken promises and the pain for the other person and a-all the stuff.
So I said to myself, "You know what I'm gonna do? I'll have relationships," 'cause I, you know, I can, I can do that.
Now, looking at the data that's out there, the most recent statistic that I read was that nearly 40% of marriages in the US end in divorce.
And frankly, I don't know how the other 60%, how those marriages are doing, if everybody's happy.
My point, though, is to hedge my bet on essentially a 50/50 shot puts me in a vulnerable position.
And so when I was trying to navigate through the separation from my first wife, I was in freaking shambles.
My parents are human, but it was like shattered freaking glass inside and outside the house.
So all I could think was, "Oh, that's how it's gonna go." And so my number one priority when my first wife and I were separating was to make the transition so easy, so seamless, so full of compassion and love and grace for my daughter as possible.
I wanted to turn a bad situation into, uh, at least a good situation i-in, in, in the best way that I could for her.
And frankly, I think we did a pretty good job, and I'm proud of th- what we have done a-and how we've been able to work as co-parents from that moment, and my daughter was one when we got divorced, until now.
But at the time when I was getting separated, when I was looking out at my future relationships, like what was love gonna be like for Aaron in the future, I made another promise to myself.
I promised myself I would never get married again because I didn't wanna go through that again.
I couldn't bear that pain and the broken promises and the pain for the other person and a-all the stuff.
So I said to myself, "You know what I'm gonna do? I'll have relationships," 'cause I, you know, I can, I can do that.
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