I remember a book that was read to help me transition to the single life, Crazy Times. Maybe it will help you. Keep up the writing as it seems to have a deep connection to words. For me, life is about the journey, not the destination and the people we help on the way. Ibelieve your poems could do that for many.

Love the poem! Divorce sucks, but it will only make you stronger over time. I know from experience. You'll get through it with the help of friends and lots of activity!

I hope you find someone to spend your later years with as it can be very lonely.

I sympathize with you. My divorce was the roughest time of my life. Stay strong.

I also find that writing helps to sort through the thoughts traveling the streams of my consciousness. For over a year I've learned to meditate for 20 minutes twice a day and have found that to be helpful too.

A few minor hiccups, usually due to newer relationships, yet my life has been steadily improving since my divorce 25 years ago. To get "un" divorced would amount to absolute pain and horror to me.
I hope life sky rockets for you.

Hang in there ! Things get better with time and all your friends on this site. ? ?

Great poem! I am a year removed from my divorce finalization. We were married 16 years and one day. I felt it, too... But I felt 50 lbs lighter after signing. It was difficult at first, but now feels like a huge gift. Sounds like you may be in a similar situation. Hopefully the healing will begin to happen quickly after the papers are signed. Good luck.

Been through it more than once; first was absolutely the hardest, child involved. It branded me with the sense of how ephemeral everything is in life, and taught me fhat I can count on nothing and no one but myself, and even that is tenuous.

Beautiful poetry, btw. Stay strong.

I was with my ex-wife for 11 years; signed the divorce 5 years ago

Felt the same at the time

So sorry you're going through a painful experience. I left my ex in 2010 and moved to Thailand to teach, and never regretted it-had the time of my life!

Pick is of me, swimming at Samila Beach, ten minutes from my Songkhla apartment by motorbike, an hour from the Malaysia border.

Excellent poem! I just got divorced a few years back after 35 years, and though it wasn't a bad divorce, as these things go, it tore me apart and left me feeling like my life was uprooted. Part of that was because I also lost my job, and our 2 kids were growing up and moving out. I feel for you, having known some of what you've gone through. I'm also a poet, and have been writing since I was a teenager, and it does help. Keep it up. You're good at it.

It gets better. Good luck.

good luck