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Written in 2012 Where were you a year ago? I had just graduated college, was stressing over finding a job and the impending loss of our house. I was married with a family and was also helping to raise my niece. Though times were tough, I at least felt slightly in control, like an adult with…
On the day my divorce was finalized, a well-meaning friend asked, “How happy are you right now?!” He knew I had been living a nightmare for the last eight months and imagined the sense of relief I must have felt upon receiving the news. But I got out of the relationship while I still loved…
The first Valentine’s Day post-divorce was slated to be depressing and, in many ways, it was. But ever the optimist, I tried to think about all of the love I do have and not the love that I don’t. This is not an easy feat when you’ve been with the same person for seven Valentine’s…
“There’s no blame for how our love did slowly fade. And now that it’s gone, it’s like it wasn’t there at all. And here I rest where disappointment and regret collide, lying awake at night.” -Death Cab for Cutie I saw a flower from a bougainvillea blowing across a major road. I could see it…
