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The Brutally Honest Advice about Divorce That No One Tells You

Read this before signing those divorce papers.

5 min readSep 8, 2020

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You’re trapped in a soul-crushing marriage that you can’t wait to leave. You’re tired of burying pieces of yourself in the rubble of a dead marriage. You’ve heard stories of divorced individuals who have found love and are now as happy as ever. It sparks hope within you.

You look forward to the day you’ll start a new life and find love again. Although a divorce can change your life for the better, there are little ugly truths that can make it difficult for you to recover from it and can leave you stuck in an unhappy future.

So before you walk away from your marriage, consider this brutally honest advice about divorce that no one no-one tells you.

You’ll be trapped in comparison.

Let’s face it; at the very start of your relationship, you were attracted to your partner for good reasons. Perhaps they fulfilled your emotional and sexual needs, they knew just how strong you liked your coffee, or the right tie to match your suit.

When that relationship dissolves, and you enter another, it’s difficult not to compare the good aspects of your ex with your current partner. You end up with a mental checklist that you expect…

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Leah Njoki
Leah Njoki

Written by Leah Njoki

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