For divorced men everywhere: a small, flowery statement
source: http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2011/06/25/for-divorced-men-everywhere-a-small-flowery-stat...
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I’m hardly the first guy to get a divorce. My guess is that a lot of other guys in my situation will recognize the sensation of emptiness that consumes the first year (or perhaps longer) after you leave. Once you had a house. Once you had someone to share meals with. Maybe you had a yard and grass that needed mowing and even a small garden to weed. You may have been unhappy and unfulfilled, but you had a life.
Once you separate you find yourself in an empty living space. In my case, in an okay little apartment downtown, but it was always just a place to crash for a year while I reflected and tried to get my bearings. But it lacked much in the way of character. I was surrounded by nameless faces whose lives were absolutely nothing like mine and once you said hello, pretty day, I like your dog, there just wasn’t anything else to talk about. A lot of the things I associated with home went with my wife, so my little apartment (which I couldn’t even paint, obviously) was incredibly sterile. Empty place, empty life.
Once you separate you find yourself in an empty living space. In my case, in an okay little apartment downtown, but it was always just a place to crash for a year while I reflected and tried to get my bearings. But it lacked much in the way of character. I was surrounded by nameless faces whose lives were absolutely nothing like mine and once you said hello, pretty day, I like your dog, there just wasn’t anything else to talk about. A lot of the things I associated with home went with my wife, so my little apartment (which I couldn’t even paint, obviously) was incredibly sterile. Empty place, empty life.
