Reflections on Identity

Who Fares Better After Divorce, Working Moms or Stay-Home Moms?

My one-woman study

Laura Friedman Williams
6 min readAug 27, 2022

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Photo by Marta Filipczyk on Unsplash

After separating from my husband four years ago, I was certain that my nearly two decades of being a stay-home mom would prove to be my downfall. It wasn’t that I believed I had developed “mommy brain,” as some mothers self-deprecatingly put it —it was that my…

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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.