Chapter One
From the opening pages
News of an ex’s engagement often lands harder than people expect. Harder than the divorce did in some cases. Harder even in marriages someone was genuinely relieved to leave. That surprise — the sheer disproportion between how you thought you’d feel and how you actually feel — is often the first thing to make sense of.
This short book explains why an engagement carries a finality that divorce alone doesn’t always fully deliver, and covers handling the announcement, social media, telling your children, and pushing back on the idea that their timeline says anything at all about yours.
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