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Celebrating My 10 Year Anniversary as a Single Woman
Pop open that champagne…we single gals deserve it!
Ten years ago, I walked out of our house for the last time in tears. I had moved in with a partner, a dog, and a dream, and I left without any of them.
My partner had hastily moved out earlier, so he could buy another home with the woman he’d been secretly dating for months, the woman he proposed to immediately, after telling me for seven years that he wasn’t ready to get married yet.
Just after his departure, my dog died of kidney failure.
And every dream I’d nurtured of domestic bliss, of having babies and growing a family, had turned to ash.
There, in emotional and financial ruin, I never thought I’d make it. I honestly didn’t think I could survive. I was so alone, in such deep grief, and I didn’t even know if I’d get enough overtime at work to be able to pay the bills each month.
It’s been ten years since then. Ten years on my own. Ten years single.
This is an anniversary just as worthy and real as if I’d been married for ten years. And honestly, it’s quite an accomplishment, I believe. It isn’t easy to be a single woman in this world.
