Singledom

About a year after I began my post-marriage life as a single mom, I was in a financial Facebook group and the topic was life insurance: how much you should have, what kind you should have, and what kinds you should avoid. Mundane, pretty cut and dry stuff. Or so I thought. Boy was I wrong. The poster was a newly single mom who had never had to deal with…

Every story has a place where it begins. For me, this story required an ending in order to have a new beginning. This New Beginning started 2.5 years ago and began with feelings of extreme weakness, buckets of tears, and much uncertainty as I charted a new path independently with 3 kids after 20 years of marriage and many years as a stay at home mom and part time nurse….