Survive Divorce Without Losing Your Mind
Nobody tells you what it feels like to sit in a courtroom and watch your marriage get argued over by two people who have never met you, do not particularly like each other, and are both being billed by the hour. You are sitting there in the outfit you spent forty-five minutes picking out, watching […]
The Radio Station
You turned off the radio because you no longer knew what you liked. That sounds like a small thing. It is not. For decades, the soundtrack of your daily life was negotiated. The station in the car. The volume at dinner. The background noise of a home built around two people. And now you are […]
Your Parents Are Divorcing. You Are an Adult. And You Are Still Allowed to Fall Apart
It is the second week of November, and your phone is already doing the thing.Text from mom: Are you coming to me for Christmas this year? I just need to know so Ican plan. Text from dad, twenty minutes later: I want you to know she is going to be there. I hopethat is okay. […]
Nobody Tells You About the Grocery Store
Everyone prepares you for the big moments of divorce. The signing of papers. The first night alone. Telling the kids. People rally around you for those. They bring food, they check in, they say the right things. Nobody prepares you for the grocery store… You’re standing in the cereal aisle on a Tuesday afternoon, and […]