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Amy Brown's avatar

This was such a powerful story, raw, real, honest. So much of it spoke to the innards of my own long marriage that I chose to end after 33 years--I didn't think I could put it back together. No, that's not completely honest. I didn't want to put it back together. Too much pain, hurt, disappointment, resentment. A way of being with each other that was set like concrete after so many decades together. I knew the work that would need to go into fixing what maybe couldn't be fixed, and I was so damned tired. (The happier ending is that we had a very amicable divorce, in the end). But you're doing it, Allison, doing the hard work of relationship, which starts with ourselves--thank you for sharing your journey with us.

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Sheila Hensley's avatar

A writer, too, and a good one. You never cease to amaze me, Allison.

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