Divorce: Grief and New Life
I've been thinking about divorce a lot this past week. I was a senior in high school when my parent's divorce was final. The decision to divorce did not occur overnight, my parents did counseling, we participated in family counseling but the crack was simply too deep and wide to repair. When the official papers were finally signed there was deep grief. Grief over the loss of what we had been, the moments of goodness and laughter that had been shared, and the identity of who we were as individuals as well as a family unit. The first several years were fought with hard decisions and hurt feelings. Joy was always accompanied by a lingering sadness that we were different, that not everyone was present to celebrate the ordinary accolades. Relationships were strained as each of us experienced a wide birth of emotions that were never felt at the same time in the same way. Our perspectives from which we told the stories of our childhood and the divorce were as varied and unique a