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My heart broke, properly, on this day in 2013. I'd had relationship breakups before then, but this was different. I remember some of it in incredible detail, and other parts are vague and blurred, like an impressionist painting. The sense of sadness and trauma remain but have been softened by time. My heart recovered, but … Continue reading 29 July, 2013
Eleven years ago, on this day, you walked out the door and never came back. When I started writing my story about what happened; your suicide; and the kids and my journey through grief and adversity, I thought it'd be a reasonably short and easy process. I was telling a story I lived through. How … Continue reading Eleven Years
Here we are again on my least favourite, quippy-acronym day of senseless tokenism. I mean, RUOK Day? We can't even spell it correctly. It might make it too real. A day of corporate yellowness and box ticking, self-congratulatory, fake altruism and empathy. Actually, in fairness, I must concede to the fact RUOK Day has raised … Continue reading Is it ok to not be ok?
Tomorrow is the 10 year anniversary of my late-husband, Michael's, death. Anniversaries of this kind are often really difficult times to 'survive.' They can bring to the surface feelings which we are too busy in our day-to-day lives to acknowledge. The first few years of birthdays, anniversaries, and other times of celebration were dire. The … Continue reading The Anniversary
