There goes your street cred.

It helps you know the wins and the losses, the lows and the highs, the comforting truths and the hurtful lies. It gives you a perspective that speaks from experience, to help your clients. If you never married at all you would be an oxymoron.

doesnt mean its u, some people dont want to be married or dont know how to be married. sometimes divorce needs to happen for many reasons

Time to change careers? Divorce lawyer perhaps?

Going to a single, never been married marriage counselor is like going to a male OB. I'm sure he's good and qualified, but he doesn't have any actual experience. So your marriage failed. There's a lot of people assuming its your fault. Some things are beyond our control. Idk personally, I'd rather have someone who had been in the trenches.

That's okay. I'm a dead funeral director.

Congrats on your new job as marriage counselor! Best of luck with your new career.

First hand experience of what not to do staring OP.

I understand why you're embarrassed, OP, but you should know this: staying in a doomed marriage just for the sake of not being divorced is a TERRIBLE IDEA, and not something you would ever advise your clients to do. You'd be a worse marriage counselor if you stayed married for a stupid reason like not being seen as a hypocrite. You probably made the right decision.

Just remember that it takes both sides willing to make it work for a marriage to be successful! I hope you can turn this into something positive!