Divorced. Now what?
Got divorced. What happens now?
The full, unvarnished account of what happens after you finally leave a bad marriage — the legal chaos, the emotional wreckage, the years of co-parenting with someone you'd rather never speak to again, and the slow, nonlinear process of putting yourself back together.-
How to Cope Through Post-Divorce Interactions With the Ex: When We Pretend That They’re Dead…
My immediate reaction after the divorce was to change my Facebook status to “Widowed” because changing it to “divorced” just wasn’t final enough for me.
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Step-Mothers Get No Respect: Reflections on the Major Suck that is Step-Parenting
No one ever gives step-parents any props. For the most part, being a step-parent is either stigmatized or shrouded in mystery, never idolized. I experienced both the stigma and the misunderstandings. Even now, a year after I’ve relinquished the role, it still sucks that I got no respect for my tenure as someone’s step-mother.
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Relationships Bite: Am I Doomed?
I had this freaky thought yesterday while I was driving around: What if mr horrible was my soulmate? I almost ran off the road in my moment of mental panic. If this was in fact true then I am DOOMED!… Doomed I tell you… and then I came to my senses and thought to myself that perhaps that wasn’t in fact true.
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#WhyIStayed
Everyone was shocked when they heard the news that I was divorcing mr horrible. I mean everyone. My friends, my family and acquaintances. No one suspected things were bad. Why? Because I wore a fake face 100% of the time, and even when I was “keeping things real” with by BFFs, there was still a spin to every story I told.
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Tales of an Outsider
Nobody wants to hang out with the person going through a divorce. Feeling like an outsider at work, and the exhausting math of having nothing relatable to share.
