March 28, 2012

Giving Myself Permission to be Sad...


I read articles from the Divorce page on the Huffington Post, almost every day.  Some are validating, some are informative, some are petty…but, this one really hit me.  It probably doesn’t make sense because this actually made me feel better.  Saying it’s ok to be incredibly sad and confused for a while.  Know that this sadness I am feeling is mine and no one else is responsible for it.  It just is what it is.

Rachael Harris- The Daily Show
It was still really… I don’t know if you’ve ever been through that, but for me, it was a huge transition. It was really painful. I had conflicting feelings about it. I knew it was the right thing to do, but I still loved my husband tremendously," Harris said, adding that she found Linda's realization that she was living alone especially relatable:
When I went back to my house, and the house was completely empty -- I had moved out when my husband figured out what he was going to do, and then I moved back into the house, and everything of his was gone -- there’s a moment in the film when Linda goes back to the house and she’s brushing her teeth. And that moment when -- she has a double-sink -- she has to turn the other sink on to feel okay, I completely related to that. That floored me. There’s this quiet emptiness that is awful.

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