When your former spouse moves on
You thought you had made your peace with the divorce. And then they found someone, and you discovered a part of you hadn’t quite.
You thought you had made your peace with the divorce. And then they found someone, and you discovered a part of you hadn’t quite.
The choices you make during a divorce — about your children, your community, and yourself — will outlast almost everything else about it. Some of the heaviest things people carry out of a divorce are not what was done to them, but what they did in response. On protecting your children’s love for both parents, resisting the pull to build a tribe, and choosing integrity over the vindication you may never receive.
A boundary is not a wall. It is a statement of what you will do — for yourself, with your own life — when love and limits have to live in the same sentence.
We didn’t expect a framework developed for faith crises to become the map we use for everything. But one morning on a hike above our home, we held it up against our divorce journey — and it fit, precisely. Here is the map, and where you might find yourself on it.