🔥 Episode 103: Sister Stories with Randa - From a Mattress on the Floor to Reclaiming Her Strength After Divorce

Better Because of Divorce · Oct 15, 2026 · 18m

"I forgot that I could make decisions on my own."

That is what Randa said when I asked her what surprised her most about the life she has created since her divorce.

After nearly 30 years of marriage, 26 of them as a career Army family, Randa found herself separated, sleeping on a mattress on the floor of a one-bedroom apartment, barely making ends meet, and telling absolutely no one what she was going through.

Not her lifelong friends. Not her military spouse community.

Nobody.

Because that is how she was raised to handle it. Keep it inside. It's nobody else's business.

And then she found The…