Reflections on Identity

I Do, I Did, I’m Done…Mostly

Getting to the finish line of divorce

Laura Friedman Williams
4 min readDec 10, 2021

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Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

I stare at the computer screen, reading glasses perched low on my nose. The legal language I am reading is formal and complex, and I have to whisper it out loud to process it. My daughter, eleven years old, sits across from me, attempting to carve a tiny abdominal six-pack into the clay…

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Laura Friedman Williams

Author of AVAILABLE: A Very Honest Account of Life After Divorce (Boro/HarperUK June ‘21; Harper360 May ‘21). Mom of three, diehard New Yorker.