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Divorce: When a Marriage Is Over
He drunk-dialed me to talk about why things didn't work out between us. Then he tried to sex me up over the phone. While still with someone else. This is how I know a marriage is already over long before anyone says it outloud.
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Stress Eating My Emotional Abuse
Joy of joys. I love winter. I do not love winter weight—the inevitable extra cushioning I seem to accumulate around my middle as my body prepares for the never to happen hibernation. However, this season I was doing better…until my mother came into town.
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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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#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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Filled With Regret
Sometimes you get lucky and find music that speaks to the feelings and emotions that you experience. When I find a song that seems to just gets me, I can’t help but wonder how that artist just “got me” in a way that other people and those who are closest to the box I am fighting to get out of, just don’t seem to.
