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5 Positive Things About NOT Living With Your Kids Anymore

Knowing you’ll never live with your kids again is heartbreaking. This article is not an attempt to minimise that pain or put a rose-tinted view on it. It is just the truth, from my experience having gone through it.  … Continue Reading →

Reconciling After Divorce

People often ask me why I chose to reconcile with my wife so soon after we separated, despite the pain I was going through. I did it for our daughter. And because it was the only way to save myself…. Continue Reading →

How To Survive Divorce As A Man

How To Give Up Hope

I’ve been holding on to a glimmer of hope. That I can save my marriage. Our family. But I think it’s just causing me more pain and stopping me from moving forwards.   The future I imagine, I crave, is… Continue Reading →

Just A Low Point

I thought it was going well. By that, I thought maybe there was a glimmer of hope. It seems I’ve been going through cycles of this. Acceptance, followed by what you might call delusion.   But tonight she told me… Continue Reading →

Forging Character Through The Pain Of Divorce

Divorce entails one successive kick in the balls after another. Painful step after painful step. There’s no getting away from it. It will be difficult.   So I’ve made the decision to try and see every heartwrenching moment as a… Continue Reading →

Diary Entry: 27th October 2021

“I’m a thinner, healthier, more well-rounded person for having known you. I think that’s pretty fucking awesome, to be honest with you.” – Lucy (my wife).   Her reply when I asked her, in an honest conversation, what we gave to… Continue Reading →

I’ve Been Drinking Too Much

In truth, drinking is part of the reason I’m getting divorced. I don’t get abusive when I’m drunk, it’s not that. But avoiding reality and escaping into my comfort zone has meant I haven’t stepped up to my potential, and… Continue Reading →

Building From The Ashes

I am a 42-year-old man. I have a good professional job. I’m married with a two-year-old daughter. And I’m on the brink of divorce.   It’s my wife’s decision, and ultimately might be the right one. She’s made her mind… Continue Reading →

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