Five Days After the Divorce My Mother in Law Asked Why I Was Still There Until I Told Her the House Was Mine

address in counseling. He said—and this was the one that stayed with me longest—that I was still not over my father and was displacing grief into an attack on our life together.

He assumed, I believe, that the divorce would proceed as divorces sometimes do when one party has significantly more social standing and the other simply wants it to end: quickly,continue reading …