Rebuilding Myself After Divorce: How I Found Healing and Hope
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi
I never imagined I’d be here at forty-nine—divorced, disoriented, and drowning in an identity crisis. I had met him just before my sixteenth birthday. He was all I knew. We built an entire life together—nearly three decades of marriage, raising children, shared memories, traditions, routines. And then, one day, it all collapsed with five haunting words: “I need some space, Heather.”
At first, I thought it was a phase. But the space became silence, the silence became separation, and soon after, I was signing divorce papers. The man …