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Lisa Rose of Southern CA says: “After my divorce, I felt an immediate sense of freedom that made me quite giddy!”

How long were you married before you began thinking about getting divorced? 18 years Why did you want to leave? There were many “reasons,” but the overarching answer is that we were in a negative cycle that was not improving. How did your spouse feel about your decision? His feelings about getting divorcedread more

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Paul of Paris says, “I didn’t want my marriage to end. But now that it has, my life has not changed. I’m just more alone.”

Paul says: “I didn’t want my marriage to end,” explains Paul, who thought he was happily married for 6 years until his divorce in 2010. “She wanted to separate. It took 6 or 8 months to finalize it, maybe more. I didn’t see it coming. I was in love. It wasread more

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Pam of Virginia says, “I was in the depths of depression when I finally realized that my husband was completely unavailable emotionally.”

Married for years before she began thinking about getting divorced, Pam found herself in depths of postpartum depression in 1998 following the birth of her daughter. “We had huge complications during her birth and both of us pulled through, but it left me with severe clinical depression,” shares Pam. “I realizedread more

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Joyce of Los Angeles says, “I wasn’t even a month into my marriage when I considered divorce.”

“I felt there was still so much untapped growth and potential in me that only in my aloneness and independence I could experience,” shares of her reluctance to stay married just weeks after her wedding. Her spouse, however, didn’t realize the degree of her distress. “I tried my best to beread more

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Donna of Boston says: “He often told me his goal was to to sleep in his own bed every night; I wanted nothing more than to live out of my suitcase.”

Here’s my story: I was married for 17 years, but after 10 I knew I wanted to leave. We had stopped having an intimate physical relationship. My husband also lost interest in the activity I loved most – traveling. And, he was financially paranoid. He was determined to save all ofread more

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Maggie of Baltimore shares: “I was married to someone on paper, but in the “real” world I always felt like I did not have a partner.”

I thought when you marry someone, that person is supposed to be the one whom you love unconditionally, laugh together, and talk with from the bottom of your heart. The person who can read you without ever having to speak a word. That comfortable pair of shoes that you wearread more

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Awesome Mom in Fairfax, VA shares: “After two years of courting, we married and had four kids in eight years. It wasn’t long after when I began to realize I married the wrong man.”

My x-husband and I met at the beach the summer after college, and was the first man I’d met in my life who fit right into the role I wanted both of us to play. I liked making the decisions and being in control — he was happy to acquiesce.read more

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Cherri of Philadelphia shares: “I always said it would be so much easier if he were a jerk, but he wasn’t.”

I would definitely fall into the Angst category. I always said it would be so much easier if he were a jerk, but he wasn’t. Perhaps I was trying to push him into being one, or pushing him to finally say, “enough, I’m out”. That never happened, and probably neverread more