Why is seperated always different to divorced? By using that term, it sounds like there is an apportioning of blame there. Why tell anyone you are seperated? It is in between married and divorced, they don't say engaged or married do they? It is just to put us all in little statistical categories. Someone who filled it in as married last month could be seperated this month and divorced next month, and even married again the month after, and so i think if u are divorced, you are single, cos if u marry again you have to be single.