From a grown up child of divorce – practical guides and a place to rant
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It feels eerily the same as when I was ten.
Waiting for a phone call that’s not coming. Wondering what I did wrong. Thinking that maybe the last time we talked I wasn’t nice enough, didn’t seem interested enough in his life, or that maybe somehow I upset him. That internal dialogue is whispering through my [...]
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Last Sunday, my husband and I were lucky enough to have a ‘date’ day. I would have preferred a ‘date’ night, but I’m still tethered to my daughter Claire after seven o’clock, so a ‘date’ day it was. My mom and stepdad graciously offered to take the kids for the entire day, leaving my [...]
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I always wanted a full blooded sibling.
For a couple of reasons.
First, I always wished for someone to share the burden of being the last remaining relic of my parent’s marriage. It’s hard feeling like an anchor around your parent’s ankles; tethering them to one another when they so very much wanted to be severed. I’ve [...]
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It’s always amazing to me the insight one gains when they actually experience something. I truly believe and have said before that with no real point of reference, it’s impossible to really understand something. You can be empathetic, understanding, critical or disparaging until the day grows long. But without the actual experience you can’t truly [...]
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I’ve got a few posts swimming through my head right now, but every time I sit down to write I come back to this. I never really meant this place to become a personal journal. I never wanted it to detail the day to day happenings of my life. But today this post must be [...]
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How do you protect your children from your parents? The question seems ridiculous even as I write it. Because once you have children a transition occurs. Your parents stop being just your parents and become your children’s grandparents. And what do we envision when we think of grandparents? For most of us, we think of [...]
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Here is a question for you. How do you view marriage? Do you envision reckless love and passion all the days of your life? Do you envision shackles? Or maybe a friendly cohabitation which blossoms into more when desire bubbles to the surface? From my experience, men and women view marriage in very different ways. [...]
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