When you make the decision to get a divorce (or the decision is made for you) there are endless amounts of tears, worries, stressors, sleepless nights, desires etc. that you are forced to deal with:
Every. Single. Day.
So there I was, in the middle of an emotional breakdown, barely able to get up and dress myself and my two little girls and yet life wouldn't stop. It just kept going. I had to pick myself up and begin the process of unraveling 10 years of a life spent with someone who was now no more than a stranger---and man was it annoying.
1. Verizon Wireless: Do they not know that people get divorces!? Separating our family plan into two separate lines was almost as difficult as having an afternoon tea with the President of the United States. The contracts, the billing, the phone calls all to give them more money for the same freaking services!
2. Facebook: Dear Facebook--you suck for people going through a divorce. You show me roses on Valentine's Day, happy families in Disney World and gifts from loving husbands who don't lie and cheat.
3. The In-Laws: The truth is I was never fond of my in-laws to begin with. They never really got me and I never got them. They would tease me for being Italian, Catholic and drinking organic milk...I would question their values, integrity and how they treated one another. But none-the-less, looking at someone as your family for 10 years and then cutting those ties is painful and annoying.
4. "This is my...": He had always been my husband...and now I wasn't sure who he was. Introducing Mr. Little (an homage to my love for Sex in the City) to people we met was awkward and weird...and ANNOYING!
5. Advice: Now don't get me wrong--getting advice, guidance and direction from people is what literally saved my life during some of the darkest days I had, but it was also one of the most annoying things ever. It was like I needed to hand out guidelines as to what kind of advice I needed when.
6. Co-Parenting: I freaking hate co-parenting. I have said that co-parenting for me is like raising my children with a stranger who I hated and having no say in what he did with my children, who he brought around them, what he fed them, how he dressed them, what he let them watch on TV etc. etc. etc.
7. Dating: What the hell dating? You are insane! Fun, exhausting, scary, sexy, confusing etc. Last time I dated I was 21, and I don't think we called it dating back then. I think we called it "Go out, get drunk, make out with some guy and poof he is your new boyfriend".
8. Head Tilt/Rub & Pat: When I was 14 my best friends father died suddenly of a heart attack. It was horrible. I remember sitting with her mother on the couch in their living room and she would tell me how more than anything she hated the head tilt and the rub and pat--allow me to clarify. The head tilt was when someone would talk to her about what had happened and tilt their head towards their shoulder and frown to show sympathy....hated it...(and you know you are doing it as you read this). The second was when someone would hug her for an extended period of time, rub her back and pat it...hated it. I also hate them both, and the people who do them. It's annoying.
9. Sex: This somewhat ties into number seven...but not always :) Sex is madness. It was never something I thought much about in relation to supply and demand. When I wanted it, I got it, when I didn't want it that was fine too. But not being able to have it---now that sucks. Early on I was told by a close friend to be a strong woman, care for my children, get my finances in order, find a good therapist and get a really awesome vibrator. Check, check , check, check and CHECK!
10. Going through a divorce. Yeah...it's annoying.
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