Tag: divorce
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Selling My Wedding Ring
September 3, 2025 Spontaneous day of selling my wedding ring. Over five years a nomad. Nearly five years since divorce finalized. Many more years since I stopped wearing my ring after the separation. But oh how I loved its sparkly glory. It was a part of me for 23 years. For years I had a…
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Five Years a Nomad
FIVE YEARS. Five years as a nomad from a creature of habit and familiarity. Five Years a Nomad. Divorce, Empty Nest, Pandemic, Mid-Life, 50s. The Perfect Storm! This is extraordinary to me. I was the ultimate creature of habit, routines, and familiarity. I chose to live at home and go to UC Santa Barbara so…
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The Empty Nester Divorcée’s Potential Downward Spiral
Second Chapter Nomad here. I am currently choosing to be happy and finding the brightness in this unexpected second chapter. I am traveling the world as a nomad. But let’s get real, divorce for women just as they become empty nesters is not only emotionally and psychologically devastating, but it is cause for financial disaster.…
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IN THE BEGINNING…THE DIVORCE 2019
THE DARK DAYS OF DIVORCE June 2019-December 2019 The Dark Days and what led to becoming “Second Chapter Nomad”: After three years separation, living under the same roof, a shadow of myself. Empty nester. Dog died. No car. No self respect. Hardest thing I’ve ever done. Filed for divorce when I realized Ex wasn’t going…
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Casa de Coco (December 2020) Divorce Finalized, First Christmas Out of House, and Croquet!
This final month of 2020 was extremely challenging. While all of the holiday lights created magical merriment, the reality of finalizing the end of a marriage of well over twenty years, sequestered in an Airbnb (albeit delightfully quirky Casa de Coco) was crushing at times. Having my kids go home for Christmas to the home…
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Casa de Coco (November 2020) with Northern California Road Trip, Divorce Crescendo and Pandemic
Previous post: https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/05/05/casa-de-coco-october-2020-threes-company/ While the divorce was coming to a crescendo, and the pandemic and restrictions were all over the place, my dear sweet roomie Loretta flew away back home to Manchester in pursuit of true love. Before she left, she and I took the Rogue to Malibu for a fun day trip. We had…
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Casa de Coco October 2020 – Three’s Company in a Divorce and a Pandemic
Previous post: https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/04/26/cancun-hard-rock-hurricane-delta-my-birthday-2020/ After Quarantine Chronicles (https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/02/21/quarantine-chronicles-part-1/), Tanzania Tales (https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/02/17/tanzania-tales-part-1/), Zanzibar Dreams (https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/03/22/zanzibar-dreams-part-1-meet-me-in-zanzibar/, and Cancun (with a hurricane!), it was time to get back to Casa de Coco, the quirky cottage where Lockdown Loretta and I nested during our divorces and the pandemic. I brought the Rogue (Scottish singer) to join us, Three’s Company style,…