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When starting over makes you complicit in erasing your own history

I got divorced and moved to a new city where nobody knows I was ever married, and sometimes I don't mention my ex-husband when it would be natural to, like I'm erasing twenty years of my life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The freedom to reinvent yourself can create pressure to disown experiences that shaped you, even when they no longer define you.

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