I didn’t like reading how many of you relate to being gaslighted. It’s one of those areas that I know for me is still tender. There is much un-probed because it hurts too much to counter often-good memories with the knowledge of the duplicity and lies. And I finally realized that the daunting task ofContinue reading “Character Assassination”
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I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
In my ex husband’s mind, why tell the truth when you can invent it? Why yell when instead you can quietly manipulate through gaslighting? In all of the pain after my ex husband left, there is one pain that stands out as more acute than the rest. After being arrested for bigamy and bailing out ofContinue reading “I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own”
Pin the Tail on the Victim
It’s rare that a news story makes me angry. But this one managed to get under my skin and infuriate me. A teacher in California has been fired after her abusive and threatening ex husband showed up at her school, violating his restraining order. The school was forced to go into lockdown until the exContinue reading “Pin the Tail on the Victim”
Court Ordered Pause
Brock and I were in the car the other day when an ad came on the radio for a local divorce attorney (these have increased lately – I guess there is some truth to this being “divorce season”). I barely registered the ad, but apparently Brock was listening. When the ad came to an end,Continue reading “Court Ordered Pause”