Surviving Marriage, Saving Me
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6 min readApr 12, 2019
I was recently in a cafe, minding my own business and working on my book. Across the room, I could hear an elderly man, in a voice none too soft, expounding at length on the flaws of the American female. I could hear him lecturing his contemporaries on how these women are often divorced at least once with multiple children and working full-time jobs to the detriment of their children. In his view, we- these divorced mothers- are the…
