Divorce. The big D. The dreaded split. I knew nobody who’d got divorced when I made that decision with my ex-husband at the age of 27. We were trailblazers in the field of failed marriages, a badge I would rather…
It’s my wedding anniversary today. I never really know how to feel on this day, the 12th January, post-divorce. The first year I had a bit of a laugh about it with my ex. The second I forgot until three…
Without a doubt, the hardest thing I’ve had to do this year is get through December. December has been a massive huge bully who has punched me in the face, thrown me on the floor, kicked me a few times…
I can’t stop thinking about my name. I’ve been Alice Harold for four years now but it has started to feel wrong that I still use the name of a man I am no longer married to. Changing it in…
The other day I saw a Tweet. From a woman like me, with two small children and a work-at-home job. The tweet was willing her husband to get home so he could take over some parenting duties after she’d been…
Without a doubt, the most difficult thing I’ve done since the end of my marriage is dating. Pre-2013 I hadn’t dated since I was a teenager. Back then match.com wasn’t really A Thing and neither was dating, really. If you…