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How to Discover Your Identity After Decades of Defining Yourself Through Relationships

I got married at 22 and divorced at 35 and now I don't know how to be a woman who isn't trying to please a man.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Long-term partnerships can subsume individual identity development, leaving fundamental questions of self unanswered after separation.

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