The lonely void of adultery
All through the winter and into the spring of my 37th year I fell deeper into the yawning chasm of my entanglement with X. I still felt constantly feverish, like I was going mad. On one level, life continued as it ever had; my eldest daughter made applications to...
Suddenly, I was cheating on my husband
Oh, yeah, no. Of COURSE it wasn’t harmless. Of COURSE I wasn’t making a fun new friend. Of COURSE, X and I were going to have an affair. It was so pathetically obvious, it now seems, to everyone but me. Certainly it was obvious to him – he knew...
Coming undone
“Midlife is not a crisis. Midlife is an unravelling”. Brene Brown When Brene Brown used those words in her brilliant 2018 blog on the myth of the midlife crisis, they spoke to me in a powerful, personal way. Midlife IS an unravelling. Brene’s words are powerful and true, and...