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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH left me and it put my self worth in the toilet, partly because it is very uncommon for a college educated woman to get divorced and not be the one to file. It’s no different than the feeling of being dumped in high school, but comes with financial and social consequences that are on a different level. It’s going to affect your self-worth for a while. Once I accepted that and let myself admit that of course someone in my situation would feel like garbage, I was able to start letting that feeling go.[/quote]

Same here.  I was blindsided and completely shattered.  My self worth is still iffy at best a few years out.  Friends tell me I appear to be doing really well, even if it’s only on the surface.  It was a long marriage and it was hard to go from “us” to single in a few short minutes with no discussion.  I’m really proud of how Ive handled myself, but I still struggle with all of it.  I probably always will. It’s less about defining myself by having a man and more that I thought I was a smart person and I had no idea – so who even am I?[/quote]

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