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In Vain Asylum
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My Husband Left Me Alone With a Hyperactive One-Year-Old and Morning Sickness to Attend a Wedding…
My Husband Left Me Alone With a Hyperactive One-Year-Old and Morning Sickness to Attend a Wedding…
He put his family ahead of my wellbeing.
Elle Silver
Dec 8, 2022
My Ex-Husband Treats His New Wife the Same Way He Did Me: Like His Maid
My Ex-Husband Treats His New Wife the Same Way He Did Me: Like His Maid
Some people never change
Elle Silver
Dec 7, 2022
I’m Dreading When My Son’s Rich Friends Sleep Over at Our Tiny Apartment
I’m Dreading When My Son’s Rich Friends Sleep Over at Our Tiny Apartment
Because then they’ll know the truth about where we live.
Elle Silver
Dec 2, 2022
I Feel Inferior to My Son’s Friends’ Parents — They’re Rich and Married and I’m Poor and Divorced
I Feel Inferior to My Son’s Friends’ Parents — They’re Rich and Married and I’m Poor and Divorced
My sense of worth can’t be derived from outside traits.
Elle Silver
Dec 1, 2022
I Never Planned to be Divorced and Poor in Middle Age. I Thought I’d Be Married With Money.
I Never Planned to be Divorced and Poor in Middle Age. I Thought I’d Be Married With Money.
Elle Silver
Oct 15, 2022
My Ex Is “Too Busy” With His Day Job to Help Bring Up Our Son
My Ex Is “Too Busy” With His Day Job to Help Bring Up Our Son
Society views a man’s time as more valuable than a woman’s.
Elle Silver
Oct 12, 2022
I “Quiet Quit” My Marriage, Staying for the Money and for Our Kids, Even Though I Was Miserable
I “Quiet Quit” My Marriage, Staying for the Money and for Our Kids, Even Though I Was Miserable
Only by “loudly quitting” was I able to finally move on.
Elle Silver
Oct 8, 2022
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Cheating on My Husband Made Me a Better Mother
Cheating on My Husband Made Me a Better Mother
My affair made me happier and, by consequence, also my kids.
Elle Silver
Aug 13, 2020
My Date Dumped Me After Finding Out My Ex-Husband and Kids Drove Me to Our First Meeting
My Date Dumped Me After Finding Out My Ex-Husband and Kids Drove Me to Our First Meeting
I had lied about this and I shouldn’t have.
Elle Silver
Oct 18, 2021
My Husband Went on a Tropical Vacation With His Family and Left Me and Our Kids at Home
My Husband Went on a Tropical Vacation With His Family and Left Me and Our Kids at Home
It was the first sign our marriage was over.
Elle Silver
Oct 14, 2021
I Brought My Kids Along on My First Date With a Man I Met on Tinder
I Brought My Kids Along on My First Date With a Man I Met on Tinder
My date was cool with my sons, but I never heard from him again.
Elle Silver
Dec 3, 2021
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