The Dress The colours in this portrait are in sharp contrast, bumping up against each other, cold and bold The kitchen window frames my single silhouette in this scene, the pose rigid and frigid How am I feeling? Relief – a decision
There are moments in life that we never forget. They are markers -there was a before and an after and life was never the same. That night many years ago when my marriage ended was just such a moment in my life.
‘fame is no talisman against human pain ..adultery is still adultery’ wrote Julia Cameron in her book The Right to Write. It was in reference to her very public divorce from Martin Scorsese in the 1970s and his very public affair with
When we divorce we lose a partner and we lose a shared history connected by people, objects and memories. This profound sense of loss is often the result of the hurt and haste in the leaving. A friend describes how it happened
Your partner has asked for a divorce and this great void called the future you didn’t expect is swallowing you up. You feel like every part of your life is crumbling. There are more questions than answers. Perhaps the most important task
The end of many marriages can be very traumatic. So traumatic in fact, that were you to visit a doctor and describe your symptoms they might say you have a form of PTSD. I term it– PTMD (Post Traumatic Marriage Disorder). Many
He had a closet full of secrets and now I had to move forward alone. My whole marriage had been a threesome or more unbeknownst to me. His rationale-family life was never impacted because what he did outside the family home did
Toward the end of the second decade of my marriage, he surprised me with a 40th birthday party. My underlying thought from that night was that he must really love me. I could not understand why I might have doubted him. It is
Emotional abuse is silent and unseen. There’s no visible scars or bruising because the pain is all inside you. It is no less painful because it is invisible. It happens behind closed doors, in private with few witnesses. For me, it all
What is emotional abuse and what does it look like? Linda was in an emotionally abusive relationship for most of her 25 year marriage. In this interview, she speaks about her own experience, as well as what emotional abuse looks like and
Emotional abuse is a difficult form of abuse to detect so how do you know when it’s taking place? Linda shares her experience of an emotionally abusive marriage. “It start insidiously with a withdrawal of affection and even a hug feels foreign,”
“Remember that children are grieving in their own way and they have this completely different perspective, because the parents are both their parents, so unless there’s been real difficulty with one parent, they’re feeling very sad about both of their parents, so