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Signs You're Going Through a Grey Divorce
Nobody hands you a label. Here are the signs that what you are living through is a grey divorce, and what shock actually looks like from the inside.
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Your marriage ended after decades.
Nobody prepared you for this part.
And it has nothing to do with the paperwork. It’s the part where you have no idea who you are outside all of this. Whether this was your decision or not, the life you once had has changed, and it can be a very overwhelming part of living
a grey divorce. Especially when you are still trying to process,
How this become your life?
grey divorce/greɪ dɪˈvɔːs/ · noun
The end of a marriage later in life. Often after twenty, thirty or forty years together.
You built an entire life with someone. A future too. And now all of that is gone. Of course that can shock your system. Your body and nervous system may be trying to catch up to a life that changed faster than you could process it.
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01
You don't recognize your own life.
The life you knew has changed, and you are still trying to process how the hell this became your life.
02
Everyone wants answers.
The house. The money. What comes next. Everyone wants to know what you're going to do, while you're still trying to get through the day.
03
What is happening to me?
The crying. The panic. The exhaustion. Then feeling completely fine for an hour. None of it seems to make sense yet.
04
Who am I outside of this?
After decades of building one life with someone, you may have no idea what you want now. Or even who you are outside of all of this.
Where are you in this?
Tell me roughly when it ended, and I'll tell you what tends to be true at that point. Nothing is saved. Nothing is sent.
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What's inside
- 1You're not crazy. You're in shock.
- 2Your body is trying to protect you.
- 3You'll feel okay, then fall apart again. That's normal.
- 4Don't rush the big decisions. Not yet.
- 5The goal this week is not to feel better.
- 6The 3 a.m. voice is not the truth.
- 7You will not always feel like this.
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It's 3:11 a.m. and I don't know who else to tell this...
I feel like I'm losing my mind. I keep replaying everything and I don't know if I'm being crazy or if this is actually as fucked up as it feels.
There is nobody
to tell.
Ok. Truth: There is the story you tell people. And then there is the shit you are actually thinking when nobody is around. Those are not always the same thing. The thoughts you would never say out loud. The 3 a.m. voice, the one that sounds unhinged, angry, embarrassing, ungrateful or too much.
You can say them here.
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