Suddenly Single & Thriving

I created this blog and haven't done much with it yet.  To be honest, writing is a passion I kind of lost during the last few years of my marriage.  I realize now that I lost interest because things were so bad and I didn't notice them.  My goal is to start creating content more regularly here going forward. I'm a little more than a year out since my husband walked out.  Things are a lot better than they were.  I've found that I'm stronger than I knew.  I am still rediscovering who I am because I lost myself in the last few years.  I still have bad days and I still get stressed out when I realize my husband left and I'm a single mom--two things I never thought would happen.  Communicating with him can be difficult, but I've learned to stand up for myself and I don't respond when he is rude. It's not easy, but it gets easier.  You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and before you know it, you are living in your new normal.  ...

I am a writer.  I love to write.  But, as you can imagine, going through a huge life change has taken some of the joy out of my life.  I stopped writing a parenting blog I had before because the wasband stopped paying the bill and didn't tell me.  It went into default and I lost my site.  He knew that I had put a lot of myself into it.  At the time, I saw it as just an accidental forgetfulness.  Now I see it for what it was--emotional abuse.  My little blog was a creative outlet for me and I gained some exposure through it and met some other incredible parents of differently abled children.  To top it off, after he left, I lost access to one of my email accounts as he took me off his office 365 plan (the family one we had).  In order go gain access to another account, he deleted my email history from my blog.  the whole email address and all the mail I had ever received was gone.  He claimed it was the only way to get my other ...

My marriage came to an abrupt end 10 months ago.  I was blindsided because I thought we were working on things and when things seemed off, I kept checking in with him.  I was constantly reassured that he was just tired and everything was fine.  I knew something was up, but I wasn't expecting him to walk out in the middle of the night while I was in the bathroom trying not to throw up after he confessed to cheating on me. It's been both the longest and the shortest 10 months of my life.  I've dealt with more stuff than I thought I could handle before.  I've learned that I'm stronger than I think I am and that I'm tougher than I look. I'm a writer by nature, and it helps me to process a lot of things.  I've been sharing on Instagram (@suddenlysingleandthriving  I will figure out how to link it here later) and thought I would bring that to a blog format.  I'm trying to live in the most positive way I can, but I'm the first to admit that it's...