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You are here: Home / Uncategorized / ground zero

ground zero

October 26, 2010 by Nancy

When your marriage falls apart, the wide crevasse you fall into can be difficult to climb out of. 

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The marriage held you together in a way that society smiles on and supports even if it was not a good one. Suddenly you are thrust into the great unknown without a map or a plan. Many, if not all, of your dreams are flattened

It is ground zero.
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The damage includes losing at least part of  his half of the church as they ‘walk out’ as you do, and losing your status as a couple (this may sound trite, but many in your circle like you as a unit and are comforted that you are one). How you look as a family is shaken as well. Like a table with three legs, it feels unsteady and like something integral to its success is missing.
The rebuilding takes inordinate energy at a time when emotionally you have none. You must ask for help, you must enlist good soldiers, you must not look at the whole devastating mess for too long but rather chip away at what needs to be done one step at a time.
Then one day you wake up and you are no longer cleaning up the mess of what was, you are living in what is and you are standing at the top of a mountain looking down amazed at your own power and will.
Just over your shoulder is another mountain, the future. It is higher and steeper but is easier because of what you have overcome.
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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: parenting, parenting teenagers, separation and divorce, single motherhood

Comments

  1. judym says

    October 27, 2010 at 8:46 am

    excellent Nancy

  2. Sara says

    October 26, 2010 at 12:30 pm

    love it….

  3. Tracey says

    October 26, 2010 at 10:04 am

    Oh, Powerful One… proud. And smiling. xox

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