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From Broken To Badass
Anyone who has ever gone through a divorce knows that you’re fragile. You’ve been through some of the worst pain imaginable, aside from dealing with death. It is a death of sorts, especially if you have a family. Everyone suffers. Nobody gets out of a divorce in one piece. I was broken after my divorce. I’m not going to try to pretend I wasn’t. I spent over 20 years with my ex-husband. I met him as a teenager. We grew up together. It was one of those relationships that don’t happen much anymore. It’s rare to see people who met as teenagers still together after that time. My devastation at…
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Torch It: Finding Closure With Your Past
I burned it. I took a lighter, lit that motherfucker on fire, and burned it to ashes. The “it” I’m talking about was pictures of the two people who hurt me the most. I knew then it was okay to let go when I torched those bitches. To let go of the past, the pain on top of pain, the wounds they both left behind when they both gave up on me. They both gave up on their family. My ex husband gave up being a man/husband and a father he once was. He hasn’t been the same father since the separation. Most definitely not the father I thought he…
