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The Merchild & The Unicorn, Part 2
Of all the things I lost when I got divorced – and I lost a lot – the immediate possibility of a second child and a sibling for E was perhaps the hardest to get over. At the time that I’d always thought I would be planning my next pregnancy, I was separating from my…
The Merchild & The Unicorn, Part 1
I don’t know how to adequately describe the shame and embarrassment I felt at becoming a 28-year-old divorcée and single mother to a first-born 1-year-old, so I won’t try here. I will just say that, whether they were or they weren’t, I felt that everyone must be thinking, “what on Earth is wrong there?” I…
The Merchild and Her Questions
“Mamma, have you ever been married?” E was four years old, and it was the first time she asked one of the questions that I had known would come since her dad and I split up a month after her first birthday. I didn’t know when the questions would start, or what form they would…
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