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Choose Your Ending

August 10, 2020 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Before we told the kids about the divorce, I was terrified of both their reaction and my reaction. I couldn’t fathom not being with them. Not even for one night. Which is kind of funny. Because there have been many, many, many nights where I would have loved a break. And now I have that […]

Filed Under: Life at My House, Self Care Tagged With: child-free nights, divorce, when you miss your kids

Chapter One: The Wedding

August 9, 2020 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I’m working on a book. Maybe. Here’s the first chapter. I got kind of drunk at our wedding. I don’t know if I could tell you the exact reason why. It was probably a combination of a few things. September 18, 2004 was our wedding day, and it was also my 35th birthday. Hurricane Ivan […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned Tagged With: divorce, marriage, signs of divorce

My First Night

August 8, 2020 by not your average mom 5 Comments

***NOTE FROM SUSIE — trying something new tonight… I might have a book in me. Here’s a chapter.  What do you think?*** We told the kids about the divorce the Friday night before. All the details had yet to be worked out, and we were all still living in the same house. One thing we […]

Filed Under: Life at My House Tagged With: divorce, freedom, independence, life after divorce

I Can Sit In Discomfort

August 4, 2020 by not your average mom 8 Comments

Yesterday I shared that I am getting divorced. This wasn’t a decision we came to quickly. In fact the process was officially started almost a year ago. But it wasn’t until last week that we shared this information with the kids. There are two reasons it took so long to really get the process moving. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Self Care Tagged With: discomfort, divorce

It Wasn’t Supposed To End This Way

August 3, 2020 by not your average mom 24 Comments

My husband and I have never had a super healthy marriage. There were red flags right from the start on both ends that neither of us really paid attention to. Maybe we weren’t able to see them at the time. Or maybe we just chose not to. Either way, for sixteen years we’ve tried to […]

Filed Under: Self Care Tagged With: divorce, ending your marriage

Nothing Changes When Nothing Changes

May 26, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I found out a week ago that my husband was let go from his job. I was angry. Really angry. I was angry because there was no warning. I was angry because we were completely unprepared. I was angry because he did nothing wrong and he was a really good employee. I was angry because […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: asshole, change, divorce, marriage, money, reflection

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