Tag: divorce

Ditching the Midwest for Southern California on the heels of a crushing divorce, the last thing Cheryl Jarvis wants is her 26-year old son for a roomie.

Newly single in her mid-50s, Pam Mandel swipes through dozens of selfies, including her own.

After separating from her husband and entering quarantine, Anne Liu Kellor faces her ongoing desire for a partner and the necessity of loving herself.

Robin Antalek considers the legacy of the man who abandoned her for another family and never looked back.

Envy over her success led her husband, also a writer, to become violent. She fights every day for her safety — and to avoid being relegated to obscurity like so many writers who are mothers.

Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.

Sari Botton turns to petty – incredibly petty – theft after her family life hits the fan.

Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.

Some of the trappings might change, but you at 27 is fundamentally you at 37 is you at 47. La plus ça change!

Yvonne Conza wrestles with the complexities of estrangement from her dying — complicated — dad.

For her father, Jaclyn Gilbert is less a daughter than a debt.

Alison Fields remembers the perils of junior high: fitting in, standing out, and trying out.

Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.

Johnny Depp’s out of cash and he really has no idea why.

Essayist Leslie Jamison visits Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships.

How finding someone else’s engagement ring helped Jenny Klion let go of her own.

On the pressure to pretend there’s no fallout after your parents’ divorce.

Shelby Vittek reflects on the bittersweet experience of watching herself be born — and her now-divorced mom and dad become parents — again and again.

In Oregon Humanities magazine, Loretta Stinson writes about her moment of clarity, the night when she saw her fifteen-year relationship to an abusive alcoholic for what it was, and decided to walk out on him.

How terrifying. I’m glad you’re recovering, I write back. I’m at a dinner party in Rome and I think I’m having some kind of breakdown. I’m scared. I’m not sure who I am anymore and I don’t have a concussion to blame it on. Or Percodan. Can you email Percodan? Sounds like we’re in the […]

“The Divorce from Hell, The Battle for Alimony and Empty Pockets.” Leonora LaPeter Anton, Tampa Bay Times.

When your wedding doubles as a covert operation. A look at the complications of CIA marriages, and how secrets often lead to separation: The Fredericksburg woman divorcing her husband laid out all the messy details, including the most secret of them all. Her husband, she wrote in now-sealed court documents, is a covert operations officer […]