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Four months ago, on a Long Island beach, three high-profile divorcees schemed the beginnings of an online hub that launched on Monday amid much fanfare: The Huffington Post’s new divorce section, aptly subtitled “Marriage Comes and Goes But Divorce is Forever,” went live under the cheeky banner “The D-Word.”

Among the mastermind divorcees was author and filmmaker Nora Ephron, whose 1983 book Heartburn unveiled her divorce from Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein, and Arianna Huffington, who divorced former California representative Michael Huffington 13 years ago and whose father’s philandering quashed her parent’s marriage when she was nine.

“As Nora Ephron has said, if there can be a wedding section, there can and should be a divorce section,” senior editor Willow Bay told the National Post. “I certainly think that, at this moment in pop culture, divorce is everywhere. And I don’t know that mainstream media has done as good a job offering readers a place where people can go for advice or information about divorce.”

HuffPost Divorce, she said, is that place.

via Divorce: Huffington Post launches new section dedicated to the end of a marriage.