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Continue reading →: Watching My Child Adjust to the New NormalThere are moments in motherhood that crack you open to the point where you think you will never be whole again. But the cracks start quietly. You don’t realise it immediately, because your own world as an individual is also falling apart around you. So those mum-moments where you feel…
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Continue reading →: Rebuilding my identity after separation: Finding myself againThere’s a strange silence that comes after separation. Not the peaceful kind. Not at first. I’m talking about the silence that arrives after the arguments stop, after the explanations run dry, after the endless emotional gymnastics finally come to an abrupt halt. The kind of silence where you suddenly realise…
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Continue reading →: Learning How To Eat Alone In RestaurantsI’ve travelled solo before. Many times. I’ve sat in little cafés in foreign cities with a paperback in my bag and confidence in my posture. I’ve ordered dinner in cities where nobody knew my name and felt completely at ease. Sipped wine in airport lounges mentally planning my next trip.…
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Continue reading →: The First Grocery Shop After Separation: Learning to Buy for Two Instead of ThreeThere are some moments after separation that feel huge. Signing paperwork. Telling people. Sleeping in separate rooms. And then there are the moments nobody really warns you about. Like the first grocery shop. Not the dramatic kind with tears in aisle seven and All By Myself by Celine Dion playing…
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Continue reading →: The Mental Load of Being a Newly Single ParentThere’s a kind of exhaustion that no amount of sleep fixes. Not the “I stayed up too late watching Netflix” kind. Not even the “my child woke up at 2am because they needed water and suddenly wanted to discuss dinosaurs” kind. I mean the exhaustion that comes from carrying the…
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Continue reading →: How I’m Rebuilding My Identity After Separation…Spoiler Alert: I’m NotThere’s this idea people love to throw at women after separation. “Now you get to find yourself again.” As though the real me has simply been sitting behind a potted plant for the last twenty years waiting patiently for someone to announce my dramatic return. Like:“Ah yes. There she is.…
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Continue reading →: How Separation Changes You as a ParentSeparation changes everything. Not overnight, and not always in obvious ways. Often, it shows up quietly in the middle of ordinary life. In the hesitation before answering your child’s question. In the silence after the school run. In the strange feeling of sitting in a house that suddenly feels unfamiliar,…
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Continue reading →: The Loneliness of Separation When You Still Live TogetherThere’s a particular kind of loneliness that comes with separation when you still live under the same roof. It’s not the dramatic version people picture in movies. There’s no clear ending. No moving truck in the driveway. No final goodbye where everyone suddenly knows where they stand. Instead, it’s quiet.…
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Continue reading →: The Loneliest Place I’ve Ever Been Was Inside My MarriageThere’s a particular kind of loneliness no one warns you about. Not the dramatic kind. Not the sitting-alone-on-a-Friday-night kind. Not even the ache that comes after a breakup. This loneliness is quieter (and dare I say, sneakier) than that. It slips into your marriage unnoticed. It settles itself into the…
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Continue reading →: What It’s Really Like to Start Over After Separation and DivorceThere’s a strange moment after separation where the world keeps moving as if absolutely nothing has happened… while your own life feels like someone has picked it up, shaken it like a snow globe, and put it back down completely differently. One minute you’re discussing whose turn it is to…
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