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- From: steveh@okam.corp.sgi.com (Steve Hill)
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- Subject: Re: Need Divorce support
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 01:01:50 GMT
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- In article <2A894112.30A7@tct.com>, lenore@tct.com (Lenore Cook)
- writes:
- |> I will soon be asking my husband for a divorce. We have been
- |> together
- |> seven years and married since April 1991. I suppose I just want
- |> some encouragement that I won't be viewed as "damaged goods" in the
- |> single world. This was my first and only marriage and I'm very
- |> unhappy that it has to end....Please be nice. I'm real sensitive
- |> right
- |> now.
-
- Lenore, you will only be perceived as "damaged goods" if you feel like
- damaged goods. This phase of feeling like that may last a while, but
- isn't permanent.
-
- I had a lot of old stuff that I had to get thru/over, and the "common
- wisdom" (that I feel was accurate in my case) says that one goes thru
- a year of the "crazies." Part of the crazies came from the fact that
- I had to discover who *I* was, as distinct from who I was as part of
- a couple. Since I didn't have a frame of reference, my "self" had
- absolute flexibility ... but no anchors. Eventually things settled
- down to where the changes that are happening are only relatively small
- ones, and I am becoming more and more aware of my "edges."
-
- As my therapist told me, "Things will get worse before they get
- better."
- She was right ... and they got MUCH better over time! So realise that
- you will be sensitive for a while, and give yourself "permission" to be
- going thru the transition.
-
- Steve
-
- p.s. As a frame of reference, I was married 17 years, separated for
- three, and divorced for three.
-
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- Stephen C. Hill, CDP
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