Audrey Stanley

Jumping Off the Cliff

I tend to stay in awful situations that benefit everyone except me. So, when I decided to get divorced it felt freeing. Don’t get me wrong, it was terrifying like jumping off of a cliff. Yet, liberating in the sense that you know there’s a bungee cord. However, that freedom only lasted during the two days it took me to drive from Texas to Arizona with three small children. I drove there for no other reason than my parents had an extra room and I had nowhere else to go. Coming back to Arizona after seven years felt a little strange but living back at my parents’ house was completely unsettling.