Reflections on Identity

I Needed My Marriage to End to Become Myself

On how divorce brought me the wholeness I had expected from marriage

Laura Friedman Williams
7 min readJul 16, 2021

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Photo by Mariano Rivas on Unsplash

By midlife, many of us arrive at the realization that the notion of happily ever after exists only in fairy tales. Note my use of the word notion, as we are never actually shown evidence of the happily ever

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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.