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Why Divorce Can Feel Like Relief and Terror Simultaneously

My divorce was finalized yesterday and I feel relieved but also terrified because I do not know who I am without being married.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The end of a defining relationship creates both freedom and existential vertigo as you confront the question of who you are alone.

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