January 26, 2023 by Beverly Willett · Personal Development

Alone Is Not a Synonym for Lonely: A Single Woman Explains

After her divorce, Beverly Willett slowly became comfortable going out alone and realized to be afraid of that is to be afraid of ourselves.

After my ex-husband left, I developed supersonic radar for all the sad songs when they came on the radio. Gilbert O’Sullivan’s lyrics for “Alone Again (Naturally)” especially resonated with my thoughts of jumping off our roof deck along with questioning God’s existence. There was nothing natural whatsoever about being forced to be alone after 20 years of marriage.

Weekends had always been family time, but that routine gave way to scheduled visitation when my children were off with dad to the other life they were building without me—which left me home alone in a panic.

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