Posted:Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:12 PM CST
Looking for the silver lining in the cloud.
It's hard to launch myself into the single world after 18 years of marriage, but I will hold my head up and stay positive and keep a sense of humor. I do have a job, not a good one, but a very secure one. Right now, with unemployment nationally, at 9.4% and rising, how many people have what I consider a secure job, in the European or Japanese or Civil service sense- something that you have legal rights to, which can only be lost after a very expensive buyout? Not too many people.
I have a decent relationship with my kids. I am separated, not divorced. In a very odd way, our society has made a fetish out of codifying and agonizing over the exact stage and status of relationships, and who is available and not available. Maybe this is a way to make sense out of what I see as a world that has gone increasingly crazy. So someone who has not legally severed the last link with the ex is taboo to many.