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Sometimes a good divorce is better than a bad marriage.
On Being Invisible And In The Dark
Have you ever had a growing feeling that something in your life is amiss but you just don't know what it is? It's a collection of little signs which, individually in and of themselves, don't seem to mean much at all. And yet.....
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Families
MY STORY TO TELL
DIVORCE I lied, this is most definitely the shortest chapter, out of respect for my children, I am not focusing on this too much. As things with my mother really blossomed, things with Stephanie continued to sour. I was finally free from the depression and grief that hounded me after my father had passed away. I was running my own business, even though it was up and down on how well it was doing, I was still doing it. I was now a firefighter; I was in the best shape of my life at 34/35 and I was finally able to connect with my mother for the first time in almost 30 years. Things were good. I was for probably the first and only time in my life genuinely happy with myself.
By Mark Vinsant5 years ago in Families
Oh My Youth...Fleeting and Fast
As a kid, I was reckless. I ran and jumped and played hard, enjoying the thralls of my youth. Climbing trees, riding bikes, scraping my knees and hands at every turn. Falling down just to jump up and exclaim "I'm okay!" making the other kids worried and then laugh because I was never truly hurt. Having all the wonder of a kid, and putting it to good use with an imagination that never left me. I was just as creative then as I am now. My hair wild and my eyes wide, I would dive head-first into any adventure, no matter what that was. My sister and I used to frequently explore the woods behind our childhood home, one time finding a small cabin-like house and never knowing how it got there or how people got to it. There was a dog chained up outside of it and tire tracks next to it, but no sign of a driveway or any sort of path leading to it. We never found that house again, causing us to believe that maybe we had imagined it.
By Crissy Cornwell5 years ago in Families
How to support your child through divorce
A divorce, however amicable, is a change and change can be unsettling. Sometimes the uncertainty of change can be outweighed by the promise of benefits to come but from a child’s perspective, this is not likely to be the case with divorce, in fact, probably quite the opposite.
By Kerry Smith5 years ago in Families
The Only Scarf in the World, Most Beautiful
The Only Scarf in the World, Most Beautiful i Close your eyes: At first the child cannot distinguish in the early morning light whether the soft color at rest upon the sand is the discarded skin of fruit, worn cloth fingered expertly by some grandmother’s hand for the skull or a drift of shell surprisingly gold. Though he knows not yet the words, this child understands that the morning light, like confusion or stupor, is neatly democratic. The drunken green waves, the jade clouds, the juniper hills, the sage seawood, the parakeet heart climbing up his throat. Without question, he admits to himself that the golden object is all he needs this day, running before mother and father have awakened and particularly each moment, dazzling in the winds. In fact, it is a simple scarf, perfumed with a familiar scent, the color of spring pineapple freed from the night before. He entangles himself with as if made for his neck, but he intuits that it was meant for a woman and he bends, like willow or crabgrass in offshore breeze, bowing his body as he stares at the cloth, the sea, the sky and horizon calling and in that moment, this six-year old waits and listens. The world expands, in that moment, with the sea.
By Robert A Black5 years ago in Families
Listen to Your Grandmother and Mother?
The women in my family are fiercely independent. The type of women who owned their own homes back when women didn’t own anything. They chopped their own wood, hauled the wood and started the fire. They were the women who protected their families during home invasions without a second thought to their own safety and left the would-be invaders running away from the 5’3” woman waving an axe, screaming “run, she’s insane”. The women who walked through 4 feet of snow to look for a straw for a dying relative who had cancer who couldn’t swallow in 1970 when straws weren’t found littering everything. These fiercely independent women who would protect their families yet be the most loving women when necessary.
By Dee Mae Elva5 years ago in Families
What does the child feel and think when the parent's divorce?
Each divorce process has two sides to the coin. Although it causes pain and leaves scars, there is a free space for something new, good. It promotes the development of autonomy and is a necessary condition in the development process. If we have read a book in the library of life, then we need to set it aside to make room for a new book.
By Bimal kanta moharana5 years ago in Families
Five Signs That Told Me My Marriage Was All Over.
I guess that there a great many signs my life was heading for the rocks long before the painful slaps in the face woke me up to what was going on behind my back. It's just that the early indications can be so infinitesimally small that you just don't notice them. Of course, holding down a full time job and co caring for three young children is more than enough to distract your attention and tire you out to the point of diminishing your attention to your relationship with your other half.
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Families
