This is only the second blog post that I have written this season because I have been focused on trying to figure out my life after my divorce in June.
I started out not wanting to be labeled as divorced. I thought I could be who I always was, even though I am divorced. What I have discovered is that being divorced has changed me. I am no longer a part of a couple who gets invited to go out with other couples, I no longer get to play cards as a couple with our neighbors, and I no longer can plan on being invited to all family functions in a family—my former husband's—that I technically am no longer a part of. I miss all of these things much more than I thought I would.
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