Relationships: Always the Solution and NEVER the Problem?
By: Mia Bencivenga
Picture this, if you will…you’ve just divorced your wife of over six years.
And, oh the pain and the vulnerability you must be feeling! The excruciating shame that one can experience when something like a marriage fails! Especially considering it was your infidelity that may or may not have broken up the marriage... Ah, surely, these are emotions that almost any individual in this kind of a situation would feel.
Yes, the time it will take you to heal will most likely be extensive; you’ll probably need at least six months of Ben and Jerry’s good old fashion ice cream therapy to recuperate from what has proven to be an arduous, traumatizing process.
But maybe, just maybe, someday you will reemerge from all of this, stronger than ever. And perhaps, find the will to love again.
And of course, you want to be kind to your now ex-wife, whose life you shared for almost a decade, by being considerate when you do meet that special someone. Because after all, that’s just common decency…