Aug
01
2012

7 Steps To Stop Separation Stress

Snap Out Of Anxiety, Step Into Your Life

Whether you reconcile or go your separate ways, at some point during the rollercoaster ride of separation, you start asking yourself terrifying questions.

For kicks. 

Here’s a sampler: “What if I never have kids again?” or “What if I die alone, while my kid is with her dad, and no one discovers my body for days?”

Hello, my name is Kat, and I have my own Crazy-Making Inner Monologue.

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Jun
22
2012

I’m not wearing my wedding ring and it feels very strange.

The truth is I haven’t worn it in weeks, but it’s only now, looking at Hubs’ bare hands that I feel odd. Somehow when he removed his, it got me looking for mine. Like I have to visually confirm its absence.

Sometimes I still feel its imprint and my thumb darts across my palm searching for the thin bands on my fingers. It’s like having a ghost appendage.

I remember how important that stupid ring was.

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Jun
07
2012

How Do You Know If Your Marriage is Really Over?

'Trying Times' Means A Lot of Different Things

Today is my wedding anniversary. Hubs and I have been together for 6 years, married for 3.

Our marriage, however, has taken a hit.

We’ve been having serious problems for over a year.

We’ve been in couples’ therapy for two months.

Things have...unraveled.

 

It’s sad around our house.

We look at each other hoping for breakthroughs, always a little disappointed with each other for not understanding. For not quite ‘getting it.’

We try to rip the wall down but it gets higher and higher.

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