Sunshine after Rain
One Woman's Journey to a Better Life
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I felt invisible at 60. I had spent many years looking after the family and then realised that I was actually lonely in a marriage that had occupied half my lifetime. I left my marriage and moved into a granny flat behind my mother's house. My mother and I had never really gotten along very well but I thought she may have mellowed in her senior years, but I was wrong. After 6 difficult years she evicted me. I didn't have much money, but I knew I could survive. I had left my first marriage when my child was less than a year old and had managed. I had struggled with depression, alcohol, loneliness and financial insecurity but I didn't give up. I knew there was a better life to be had. I lost the support of friends and family along the path to my new life but I also found some wonderful new friends. I don't own any real estate, I have a warm bed to sleep in, food in the cupboard and although it is a financially precarious situation, I am happy in this life I reinvented. I don't know anyone I would swap places with and I guess that says it all.
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About the Book
It is possible to completely reinvent your life after leaving an unhappy relationship. It takes time and persistence, but it can be done. Be prepared to lose friends and family along the way to this new “you,” but you will emerge as a stronger, more resourceful and resilient person. This new life can be wonderful. I know because I did it at sixty years of age. I am truly happy for the first time in three decades.
About the Author
Over many years, I have read stories about other people’s lives and the way they have triumphed over adversity. This story is about the obstacles I have faced. I walked out on a marriage when my daughter was only ten months old, and I survived. I married again and stayed in that partnership until it was almost time for us to retire, and then I realised that we had such different ideas about retirement that I could no longer stay in that relationship. Again I left, but by then, I was sixty years old and had to start my life over again as a single senior person whose friends and family took sides. I was financially compromised, but I knew I would be able to redesign my life as I have an inbuilt resilience, as many women do. For the first time in my life, I am living in a rented unit and sharing with another female who has also left relationships behind her. A female cat makes up this happy trio.