Tag: divorce
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I Don’t Want to Just Survive My Life Anymore
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the difference between surviving and actually living. And I think, for a really long time, I’ve been surviving. The strange thing is, I didn’t necessarily realize that’s what I was doing. When you’re in survival mode long enough, it starts to feel normal. You get up. You go…
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I Can Finally See the Finish Line
For a long time, I knew something needed to change, but I couldn’t really see what came next. I could picture pieces of it. I knew what I wanted to feel. I knew what I didn’t want to keep feeling. But there was this huge space between knowing that my marriage wasn’t working for me…
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Love Bombing: When the High Makes You Question Everything
I was on the right path. I had made the decision, at least within myself, that my marriage was no longer working. I haven’t asked for a divorce. I’m still married. I’m still living in the same house. But mentally, I had finally reached a place where I wasn’t asking myself the same question over…
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Before You Leave, You Start Planning to Live Again
I thought leaving a marriage started with filing paperwork. I was wrong. For the longest time, I believed people woke up one morning, decided they were done, called an attorney, packed their belongings, and walked away. I know now that’s not how it happens. At least it wasn’t for me. For me, leaving didn’t start…
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I Forgot I Was Someone Too
For as long as I can remember, I have been someone to everyone else. I became a wife while I was still so young that I never really figured out who I was on my own. Then I became a mom while I was still a teenager. Every decision I made after that revolved around…
