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Ep. 260 - Why People-Pleasing Wives Struggle After Divorce (and How to Break Free) · Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce

• 0:54
  Speaker 1: Hi love.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Dear Divorce Diary, the podcast helping divorcees go beyond talk therapy to process your grief, find the healing you crave and build back your confidence.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: I'm your host, dawn Wiggins, a therapist, coach, integrative healer and divorcee.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: Join me for a fresh approach to healing grief and building your confidence after divorce.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: I'm starting to understand.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't just him and I don't mean I was awful or anything, but I think I might've been toxic in my own way, not the screaming or cheating kind, but in a way where I sort of disappeared.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: I kept quiet, I went along with things.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: I told myself I was being easygoing for a lot of years, and now I'm not so sure.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: Maybe I was abandoning myself and calling it love, maybe I thought being needed was the same as being loved.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: And now, all these years later, I'm only just now connecting the dots.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: In today's episode, we are going to witness the woman who wrote this, who has been married for a very long time and has lost an identity and an understanding of where she fits anymore in our society, who values youth and beauty and virility over and loyalty and abiding.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the kind of grief that goes so far beyond the loss of a marriage or a role, but around an identity what happens when we divorced ourselves from ourselves before we got divorced?
• 2:41
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• 2:48
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• 2:56
  Speaker 1: Dear Divorce Diary is a podcast by MyCoachDawn.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: You can find more at MyCoachDawncom.