I’m staring at this blank page and thinking: This is one of the most important things you’ll ever write. Be kind and brave, Glennon. Steady. Clear. Shameless. Gentle. True.
Pretend it’s just the two of us here in my kitchen. I’m making us chamomile tea. I pass a mug to you and ask you to sit down on the couch with me. You follow me into my family room and and we sit down and I look at you. I can see that you’re nervous because you’ve figured out I’m about to tell you something important. I quickly say: It’s okay. Everyone is healthy. All is well. We are all okay.
We are. And yet.
Craig and I are separating.
What happened? I am still looking for the words. While I am smack dab in the middle of the unfolding, here is my best explanation: As you’ll read in Love Warrior, Craig and I endured serious trauma a few years ago. We suffered. My God, we suffered. I was broken, just completely shattered. And then we healed. It was beautiful.
And this is what I learned: You can be shattered and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece.
But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong – but you are now a different shape, a different size. This sort of change — the change that occurs when you sit inside your own pain — it’s revolutionary. When you let yourself die, there is suddenly one day: new life. You are Different. New. And no matter how hard you try, you simply cannot fit into your old life anymore. You are like a snake trying to fit into old, dead skin, or a butterfly trying to crawl back into the cocoon, or new wine trying to pour itself back into an old wineskin. This new you is equal parts undeniable and terrifying.
Because you just do not fit. And suddenly you know that. And you have become a woman who doesn’t ignore her knowing. Who doesn’t pretend she doesn’t know. Because pretending makes you sick. And because you never promised yourself an easy life, but you did promise yourself a true one. You did promise – back when you were putting yourself back together – that you’d never betray you again.
And so one day you sit down with your beloved, wonderful, kind, brave, warrior husband and you look at him and you say: Honey. We have worked so hard, for so long. We have been warriors for each other and for our children and for this marriage. And yet. I don’t fit here anymore.
And your husband looks at you and, eventually through his tears, he says: Four years ago you gave me the most selfless love I’ve ever received. It healed me. And now I’m going to return that kind of love to you. The kind of love that only wants truth and wholeness and peace for each other.
For the next several weeks, you do nothing but cry and talk. Sometimes it feels like that’s all you ever do—because, it turns out, you have been grieving your marriage for years. But still, you cry and talk more. You close the bedroom door and sit on that bed and you talk. You talk about how hard you’ve worked together, how you stayed on your mats and didn’t run from each other. Since you didn’t run, you discovered together that fight or flight aren’t the only options. There is a third way: heal.
You talk about how broken you each were when you met, and how whole each of you is now. You say to him: You’ve been my healing partner. He says: And you have been mine. You talk about how you can forgive someone and love someone and at the very same time know that you cannot be with them anymore. You get more honest than you have ever, ever been before. You talk about how hard, how very brutal it’s all been for the two of you. Since day one. And you talk about how beautiful it’s been for the two of you. Since day one. There is a moment in every conversation when one of you says: My God, the kids – and neither of you can go on. That’s the black hole. Still is. I can’t write more about that right now. Someday. Not today.
You sit in a therapist’s waiting room to discuss how to handle this with as much peace as possible for the kids.
You sit with your children and you create a new family mission statement:
Then you help your soon-to-be-ex-husband-forever-life-partner move into a rented house a few doors down. You have family dinners, plan your family summer vacation together, and you look at each other and realize you’ve never loved each other more, bigger, truer.
And then you tell your team. You tell the people who are invested in your career. And hot damn, this is bad timing. There is fear and panic. Because you are about to launch the biggest project of your career, the book you finished a year ago, and so many have been working so hard for its release. And it’s all about your marriage. And the advice from many is: Wait, G. Just wait till after the book has launched to reveal this. This is a MARRIAGE book – you can’t break up before it even comes out! Glennon – it will affect sales. It will affect your career, your success.
And you will listen to this advice. And you will decide: No.
Like Mama T said: I was not called to be successful. I was called to be faithful.
I was called to be faithful to truth and vulnerability and to YOU. I never promised anybody I’d get it all right; I promised I’d keep showing up forever. Today. Whether I’m in the valley or on the mountaintop.
Please come close when I say this next part, it’s important: This next step is not a departure from the path of the Love Warrior. This next step is the fulfillment of it – for me, for my particular journey. Love Warrior is a book about self-trust. It’s a book about a woman who has painstakingly learned that there is a still, small voice guiding her through this brutiful life one next right thing at a time. And that the only thing she cannot do – not ever again – is betray that voice. Self-betrayal is allowing the fear voices to drown out the still, small voice that knows what to do and is always leading us home to ourselves and to truth and to love. Love is the boss of me, not fear, and certainly not “success.”
And by the way, success to me is not staying in a marriage — it’s staying in my own peace. At all costs. And so, even when it’s highly inconvenient – even when it feels CRAZY – I will listen to the voice, and I will obey it. And I will be messy and complicated – and I will show up anyway. Because I’ve fought too hard for my sobriety, sanity, integrity—and for your trust—to give it up now.
So I said to the team: We tell our people now.
And they said: Okay. Should we clear your schedule then? Revealing yourself in your writing about this is one thing, but do you want to be on stages with it? Won’t that feel too vulnerable?
And I thought about that for a while. Lord have mercy, cancelling the tour sounded good.
And I decided: No.
My family is here, now in two houses. But my family is also you.
I will not hide from you, not now. I will show up in your cities, in your churches and theaters and on stages and I will say: HERE I AM. A little busted up, but not destroyed. I will be at my weakest, but when we are weak, then we are strong. If I’m this weak, can you imagine how strong I’ll be? Damn.
Listen: Love is not a victory march. It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah. So I might be cold and I might be broken but I am still gonna scream HALLELUJAH all over this country. I am going to stand in front of you with my medicated little head held high and I am going to be so busted up and broken that the light is going to pour out of me like stained glass. I know this.
Here’s what else I know: Some loves are perennials—they survive the winter and bloom again. Other loves are annuals—beautiful and lush and full for a season and then back to the earth to die and create richer soil for new life to grow. The eventual result of both types of plants is New Life.
New life. Nothing wasted. No failure. Love never fails. Never, never. Love is messy and beautiful and brutal – and Love is the whole point. So, I am not afraid, I was born to do this.
I’m asking you, please love me through this. Be my people. The world will have opinions and I need this Love Warrior Army. Please stay close.
Sister On, my beloveds. We can do hard things. We belong to each other. And LOVE WINS.
G
P.S. Since I publicly announced the trauma in my marriage four years ago, I have become a soft place to land for women in marriage trauma. I have listened to what kind of responses from people are helpful and which are hurtful. So many of us want to say and do the loving and supportive thing, but we sometimes don’t know what that looks like. So, with humility, love (and a healthy dose of defensiveness on behalf of my heart and the hearts of my warrior sisters), I offer the following thoughts:
If I don’t mention something, it’s not because I forgot to. It’s because I desperately have to find the balance here between honesty and a tell-all. Between transparency and responsibility. What I owe you and what I owe myself. There will be parts of this story I (try to) keep for myself and Craig and the kids. If you can, please resist assumptions, gossip, or asking for details I haven’t provided. I can tell you this: I feel defensive of Craig here. No one could have worked harder. There is no better father or man on earth. Craig is a hero. He is a Love Warrior. I am fiercely proud of him.
Try to avoid lamenting how sad it is that people “throw away their marriages these days.” Try not to generalize. I have met hundreds of divorced women who didn’t throw their marriages away. Most of us fight like hell for our marriages until we realize that we can either save our marriages or save our souls. So please, I’m not looking for advice. Just love and support.
Please don’t pretend to know what God thinks of us. Please think deeply about the chasm-wide difference between leaving a man and leaving God. Please remember that when a woman leaves, she just brings God with her. Nothing separates a woman or a family from God’s love. Not death, and certainly not divorce. Jesus taught us that sometimes death is necessary for there to be new life. And that God loves us far more than any institution God made for us. When someone suggests otherwise, it brings shame to us. But we won’t let that in. We are women who have become far too wise to believe in shame.
Sometimes, when people make decisions about marriage, it evokes strong feelings in others. If my news does that to you today, please look inside and get curious about whether those feelings have more to do with you and your life than they do about me and mine.
I will repeat this last one: Please stay close. I need you more than I’ve ever needed you.
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Thank you for your words and modeling of such an important life event. Your writing has always empowered me to be more me, and understanding my own soul’s peace as such a high priority is a new thing for me. Thank you for teaching me not to disappear into something. You have all my love and prayer and support, and I’m grateful for your constant honesty. I will always continue to point my warrior sisters to you and your words, as they have given life to so many of us. Thank you thank you thank you, and love love love.
Still here. I pre-ordered Love Warrior and I would do it again and again. Holding space for you and your family. <3 Love and light.
Hugs, love. ❤️
Your eloquence is inspiring, thank you for sharing your story, again. You make my world so much better just by showing up for yourself.
All the love to you dear Glennon.
I am always so inspired by your transparency, honesty, and bravery. I started reading your blog four years ago… Just before the painful one… You know what one. I was in awe of you then and still am now. Keep on keeping on, because your words have more power and encouragement to your readers than you can imagine. Prayers for you all.
All of this…YES. The PS part… I wish I could wear that on a shirt everyday. You need us and we need you. You don’t know how many people you are helping with writing what you wrote. Both women and men. Thank you for speaking the truth. Love always wins. I am saving this post and will read it again and again.
I love you woman. Thank you for sharing and know that you are so loved❤️❤️❤️
You have the gift of pouring life into words when most of us can’t. I thank God for you. Bless you and your family, G. Warrior on! You are not alone ❤️
You’ve always supported and loved those that were brave enough to stay, and you’ve always supported and loved those that were brave enough to leave. May this community do the same for you in the days ahead….
Thank you for your honesty and vulnerability and courage. I hate the pain your family is going through, but it feels good to know that I am not alone in struggling in marriage. My kids and I have been through a divorce (and not a kind, gentle one.) And I remarried and now my wife and I are dealing with our own marriage trauma. Old trauma is rearing its head and hijacking our relationship and it is very scary and sad and I don’t know what the outcome will be. In a way I can relate to the feelings that come from going through this while your book is coming out. My wife and I are both psychologists. We help other people with their life problems. We help couples. And right now we can’t help ourselves very well. We have found ourselves in worse situations, or handling things less well than the clients we are supposed to be helping. I feel like a fraud on a regular basis and also so isolated by the feeling that I can’t talk about this with people because this isn’t supposed to be happening to us. I have been reading Carry On, Warrior this weekend (for the first time) and grappling with how I can be more honest and who I can be more honest with. So as hard as your post may have been to write and share, it was what I needed to read and it has already helped me. We will stay close to each other. Sending you love and understanding.
Oh man, Glennon, I am sending you all the strength and love and compassion that you could ever want. Barrels and barrels of it. I’ve never actually commented before, but I’ve been reading your work for some time and I’m always so inspired by you and the truthful, authentic, kind, caring way that you inhabit the world.
And the authentic, truthful, kind, caring way that you move through pain and conflict and difficulty…and life.
You provide such a beautiful example of how we can move through these moments in a way that is caring to everyone involved, and *feels right* and is right. So much love to you and your family in this time. I’ll stay close.
Love.
I just bought my ticket yesterday to hear you speak in Portland. I’ll see you then. And even from the cheap seats in the second balcony, I hope you feel love. That’s all there is.
A marriage separated, or even ended, with love and compassion is NOT a marriage failed, and you embody love in all of your being. You have succeeded at marriage, at love, and you and your family will shine on for it. Growing hurts but you’re amazing. You are a wonderful voice in the world.
Thank you for being wholeheartedly YOU. You are deeply loved Glennon.
Thank you, G. Thanks for sitting down with us today even if it was terrible timing for the book release and tour. Thank you for breaking into a million pieces to let the light shine through. You’re simply beautiful. Every last broken shard. We are with you. Every step of the way. ❤❤❤
You are strong. You are brave. You all are loved!
Oh, my, I’ve been there. I felt every word. Remember, beauty from ashes. To you, only love ❤️
As someone who has deeply fought for my marriage with a man who goes in and out of recovery for opiate addiction this rang so true for me, “Most of us fight like hell for our marriages until we realize that we can either save our marriages or save our souls.” Thank you so much for sharing this part of you and for saying the words out loud that I’ve been saying to myself. Lifting your family up and wishing you strength, love, and healing!
Only love!! I too fought like hell and could not save my marriage but could save my soul so I did!
Warrior on!
Sitting here with tears in my eyes and astounded and in awe of your truthiness and vulnerability and deep sense of knowing how to be a big hearted human being – always.. Divorce doesn’t have to be shameful, mean and slanderous of nashing teeth at each other. It can be a recognizing and honoring of 2 human beings who have met their journey’s end and knowing it’s time to step away from the table. How peaceful, thoughtful, honoring and a bowing to each other and your time together and the future of it. Thank you for being the example I had hoped, wished, I could have seen from my parents. You heal parts of me that this chld inside of me didn’t know could be healed by other examples and truth and testimony. Thank you. I wish you and your loved ones Peace, Love and Light as you navigate these new territories and may Love always lead you.
G for Glennon. G for grace. Reading you for ever, first time commenting. Even in your pain, you touch hearts and inspire the living heck out of us. Standing by you, no matter what. Much love as you all navigate this new life together.
When I left my husband 13 years ago I came to understand that you can’t leave until the pain of staying outweighs the fear of leaving. No one can tell a women when to stay or when to leave. I trust your decisions. God is never closer than when we show our vulnerability. Much love to your family today.
Love love love to you and your family.
You can do hard things – but Lord, aren’t they hard sometimes?
Peace be with you. xo
Can’t tell you how much your words mean. I left my husband on June 6th, and my whole family (and his) needs to see your P.S.
and- you are brave, baby. So So brave.
I struggle to go to the HyVee because I don’t want to talk to people about my life right now, and youre braving a Book Tour?!?! You’re officially on my daily prayer list. You and Liz are the spiritual validators helping we walk through my “surrender, not quit”. Transitions are hard, but Rob Bell reminds us that the beauty on the other side is like none we’ve ever seen.
I hold you and yours tight to my heart. You’re not walking this alone, love.
And I would set down my mug of tea & give you the biggest hug & say “You are amazing & brave & we are all here with you. Today & always.” ❤️
Wrapping arms of love around you this morning. Thank you for your bravery and truth living and telling.
G, staying close and sistering on. Thank you for being brave and honest. We can do hard things. Together.
Your family is SO loved. Holding space for you and yours as you navigate the growing pains.
G for Glennon. G for grace. Even in your pain, you touch hearts and inspire the living heck out of us. Standing by you, no matter what. Much love as you all navigate this new life together.
I love you so much and you have helped change my life. You will carry on through this and everyone will be stronger and more brutiful.
I admire your courage, your honesty, and your willingness to be vulnerable and open. It helps the rest of us to do the same. My prayers and love are with you.
When I left my husband 13 years ago I came to know that I couldn’t leave until the pain of staying outweighed the fear of leaving. No one can tell a woman when to leave or when to stay. Much love to you and your family today. I trust your decisions are right for you and God is never closer than when we expose our vulnerability.
I get it, so much, and my own path right now is, well, complicated. Hoping we all come out whole on the other side. Wishing for better, and more, and just so much love.
Staying close. Bless you, Craig, and your sweet children. Sending BIG Love. The New Life is something else. Bless you for leading with your heart, head and gut.
I admire your bravery. Sending hugs to you and your family. ❤️
We. Can. Do. Hard. Things!!
I have carried those words with me, I have literally called them out as I have traveled down a new or challenging path. I will stand with you G. as you have stood by me.
I admire your courage, your hoesty, and your willingness to be vulnerable and open. It helps the rest of us to do the same. My prayers and love are with you.
This is the bravest thing I’ve ever read. And I truly understand every word. I’ve been there. I am there. Thank you for sharing your truth. Xo
I am in awe of your truthfulness and bravery. I struggle with sharing the hard parts of my relationship with people because I don’t want to have assumptions be made of who is “right” or “wrong”. When I met my husband he was in active addiction and I tried everything to help him stop. We struggled for a couple years to each get our own heads straight. Through that experience I’ve learned who my true friends are. I don’t want them to be “on my side” or try to fix the problems. I just need them to listen and hold space for me. My husband’s willingness to be honest with my friends and family was one of the things that pulled us through. I can’t imagine how scary it was for him but I am forever grateful. It was tough for everyone but we’ve come out of the darkness and I’m grateful now for the journey.
Much love to you and Craig. I admire both of your bravery in sharing your story.
Grace, Baby.
You (and your family) are surrounded by grace and love. Go live it!
Big hugs to you Glennon . That took SO much courage. xo
You’re doing the hard thing for yourself and your kids and Craig and, for that, you should be commended. This warrior was raised by divorced parents who loved us and each other fiercely and we were stronger – individually and as a family – because we all stayed true to ourselves rather than following the expected path. I’m certain you’re giving your kids the same gift. Sending lots of love your way!
Only love!
So much love!
I love you. Thanks for sharing this . And I’m still totally excited to read that new book of yours. You rock sister!
I too have grown out of a too-tight skin, and suffered the consequences of pretending it wasn’t happening. This will be hard, but so very worth it. I’m applauding you and sending love to your whole clan.
More prayers than you can ever imagine are being said for you and your whole beautiful family! God in Christ through the power of the Spirit sustains in all the brokenness of life. You and your family’s vulnerable witness to this truth has and will empower others to embrace the messiness of life, to be vulnerable with the world, and to be open to the immutable truth that “LOVE WINS” in ways that we do not expect and cannot explain. Peace, sister! Peace to and for you and all those you love.
Much love to you, Glennon. As someone who’s never been married, I always feel confused when people separate or get divorced because it’s far outside my realm of experience. But one thing I do know is the pain of growth and of not fitting in anymore, so I’ll just say that I believe in you and I’m grateful for your vulnerability. I’m still excited to read Love Warrior. I’m still hoping to see you on tour. I’m still excited for the work you’re doing to help others. This is just an opportunity for more grace and more love and more doing hard things together.
G – carry on my warrior friend and sister. And when you can’t, we will hold you up or lay down bedside you. ❤️ J
I love you G! Thank you for being open and honest.
Sister on, Warrior!
I separated from my husband in January and have found so much solace in your posts, but never more than now. Even though it was my choice it’s still the hardest thing I’ve ever experienced. You are such an inspiration and I find SO much truth in what you say. It’s also comforting to know how universal so much of this experience is–it gives me hope for the future. THANK YOU and LOVE to you.
Sending love and prayers to you and your family. God will sustain you all during this tumultuous time. And for anyone who cannot continue to love you, let them go…you have an army of love warriors who will not desert you.
My heart breaks for you and for the emotions bubbling up inside me about my own life and marriage. I hold you close in my heart and prayer. You are brave living your truth and you give others courage to live their own truth. There is light on the other side. Sending you and your family love and hoping for peace for all.
As you were going through in your marriage what you were going through four years ago, I was ending mine. The people around me offered me nothing but support, and I will offer you nothing but that during this difficult time. Well, and also an enormous and likely tearful hug when you come to Pennsylvania in September. I know also how it feels, after a lot of hard work, to wake up and realize that you have changed, and you don’t quite fit into that space you used to. I have gone through a LOT of therapy and continue to do so, but I am much happier today than I was four years ago. And I also turned forty this year and realized I can’t run from the real me anymore. It’s time to let her out and let her live. Sending so, so much love your way. Remember, together we can do hard things.
You are not alone. Some will understand. Others will not. It takes great courage to live out loud. Be at peace. ❤️
You are astoundingly brave and you are unquestioningly loved.
So much love to you. ❤️ Thank you for helping so many women through your vulnerability.
Glennon,
I’ve not written before, but I have followed your blog and writing for some time. I’m a later comer, maybe? I finished Carry On Warrior last night and really wanted to write to you to thank you for such beautiful and honest writing, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it privately, so I didn’t.
And now I read your post today. And I think yep, you’re doing it…I don’t know how, but you’re being honest, and true and raw with us…which helps us be more honest with ourselves and each other. So here you go Warrior: keep it up, show up, be present and continue that drumbeat of Love. I’m so glad you included yourself in that definition of love. You are Love, just like we all are. Thank you Glennon, for being real and honest.
When I attended your visit in Grand Rapids, MI with friends – friends who all happen to still be married and are all love warriors in their own different ways – the thing that struck me the most, that resonated with me and brought me to tears, were your comments on the strength that it takes to leave a marriage, too. You spoke then, about compassion and respect and support for those of us who are traveling that journey. Because it is so.damn.hard. It is so hard to love someone, to love and fight for your marriage, to fear for your children, to do all the things a person can do as an individual to grow in themselves, to be the best version of them as a woman, person, mother, but to still have to face the reality that for whatever reason, unique to each marriage or relationship, it is impossible to grow and heal and be whole while in the marriage/relationship. I’d spent 4 years already then still fighting my own battles against feeling weakness, or at least the being perceived as being weak, for leaving my emotionally harmful marriage and becoming a divorced mother of 4. I was surrounded by loving friends who, I still believed, in the back of their minds, because they’d fought for their marriages and stayed, whereas I had not, that I had simply given up a fight that could/should have been continued.
Your words about seeing the strength in the Love Warriors who knew they needed to go, gave me a clarity about the limiting beliefs I was carrying with me, and helped me to let them go.
Thank you so much. For that experience then, and for your vulnerability, openness, and bravery now.
You can do this. And you will thrive. And you have 100% of my support.
Thank you.
Seriously? What kind of person can do this? Especially before the book? WOW — if I wasn’t already amazed by Glennon, now I am quadruply amazed by Glennon and her strength!
Bravo, Glennon! You are fabulous at taking care of others and I am so happy that you are taking care of yourself. BRAVO!
BRAVO!!!
We are SISTERING you today, and every day.
Glennon sister I am going to hug you so hard when you come to Denver. My heart heard every word of this and wants you to know you are not alone.
Be well. Be well-blessed. You and your people. Right where you are. Right where God has you now, in this moment. He is the Great Holder. The Great Restorer. The Greatest Love we will ever know.
You are so strong. God bless you in this new chapter of your life.
I am in the same situation. I am praying for you and with you. God is with us.
I’ve been there at that place where you grow and it doesn’t fit. You are blessed to have each other to work through this together and to both stand for yourselves and the kids. That’s what makes the next chapter work–together even when apart. You are strong and real and that’s why we love you and listen to your words. Thank you for all of them and the courage it takes to share them.
“This sort of change — the change that occurs when you sit inside your own pain — it’s revolutionary. When you let yourself die, there is suddenly one day: new life. You are Different. New. And no matter how hard you try, you simply cannot fit into your old life anymore.”
Yes. I have been exactly here. And leaving was grieving AND healing. Thank you for sharing your truth and your heart. I know they are one and the same. You are paving a path of healing for so many of your readers. Much love to you, G.
Love, nothing but Love, for you and your beautiful family in whatever form it takes.
My husband and I divorced recently. We are better friends now and better parents. It was the best decision for our family. We are still a family. Peace be with you. xo
Glennon, your words have always really inspired me but I’ve never commented til today. My parents divorced when I was 11 and it was the most brutiful choice my mom could have made. She is a new woman, and has accomplished so much in the years since. She fought like hell, like you fought like hell, but I respect her infinitely more for saving her soul over saving her marriage. She is my hero and my best friend and I’ll bet your kids grow up to love and respect you the same way. Carry on, warrior! Hugs to you.
With you.
Sending love, strength and healing. ❤️
Sending love and hugs and support and strength to all of you — every part of you, Glennon, and all five of you Meltons — as you navigate these rocky straits.
I love and respect you. It is a brutiful life, Staying close, always.
The way you share your heart is soft, lovely, welcoming and brutally honest. This is God at work. You are blessed and share that with the world. Glennon our prayers are with you and your family and I look forward to meeting you in May
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Sending you and your family lots of love!
Awed by your courage and faith. You are one Badass Love Warrior! Love you.
Love you G!! Thinking about you. I appreciate your honesty. We’re closer than ever, hope you know & feel that.
You are brave. You are a sanctuary for so many and an inspiration to me on how to create my own sanctuary within myself. Love.
Love your vulnerability Glennon. I’ve been through a divorce and my heart is breaking for you. Not easy for anyone regardless the circumstances. Sending love and hugs.
We are staying close and you are loved. <3
Only love. Today and always, only love. <3
Love and hugs to you, Glennon. Thank you for sharing. You will be fine. You already are.
Love and support are the 2 things you will always have here. – From someone who has been there and rose stronger.
Thank you so much for this. In the past two years I have been in treatment to heal trauma that happened to me years ago. The strain it put on my business and husband was astronomical. He stood by me faithfully, though resentment had built. I am finally becoming whole, and it is becoming clear that he didn’t fall in love with the whole me, he fell in love with the broken me. 3 weeks ago he asked for a divorce. I never thought this would be the way my life would go, I also never thought I’d be whole. All I can do is put one foot in front of the other and remind myself that just because my marriage is ending, doesn’t mean I did the wrong thing to seek help and heal.
Thank you for your honesty, humility, and strength.
Katie
What a great moment of vulnerability. My heart is yours. Thank you. <3
Your whole family is loved.
You are brave. You’ve got this. Carry on warrior. We’re with you.
How brave of you to share so much of your heart with us. I wish I was in your kitchen, sipping that tea…then giving you a huge hug. Your family’s mission statement is beautiful and one we should all strive for, every day…through good times and bad. Sending nothing but love and support to all of you.
So much love to you. And hugs. And closeness. And love. And hugs.
Love you.
That is all.
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Our turn to say it to you….Warrior on, Glennon. Warrior on.
G,
It’s a perfectly imperfect world. Thank yo so much for being true to yourself and your family. No one could ever ask for more. Thank you for helping me to find my light, a little at a time…..perfectly imperfect…
Thank you for being brave. Listen to that still, small voice and thank you for reminding me of mine.
Glennon! I have never met you, I do not know you, but I am constantly inspired by you. I want you to know that I am SO PROUD OF YOU. So very proud of you. You are wise enough to know that, while a family intact is so healthy for children, a family held together by parents not being true to themselves is not healthy at all. It is hurtful to children. You are a mama who loves herself and her kids and I know you will come out of this better in the long run.
I am a child of divorce, I was 9. It was so hurtful when my parents split– they are not as sensitive and loving as you and Craig. But I want you to know that I look back now, almost 30 years later, and I am so grateful that they did split. My mom is such a different person, a better and stronger person, and I am so proud of her for saying, “ENOUGH!”
Glennon- you hold your head up high. Your kids will look back on this and be so proud of you. I just know it.
Holding space for you ❤️
Love to you. Forever and always and no matter what. No advice. Just love.
You are loved ❤️