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Unpacking Emotional Baggage - A Love Story

Unpacking Emotional Baggage – A Love Story

2018-06-01
By: Live by Surprise
On: June 1, 2018
In: Divorce, Inspiration
With: 1 Comment

I have a girlfriend that I’ve known for over ten years.  We worked together in the same office for a time. It was a difficult office – our boss was a bit of a tyrant, and as a result, a number of us grew quite close and have had friendshipsContinue Reading

Why I Should Have Waited to Marry

Should I Have Waited to Marry?

2017-06-19
By: Live by Surprise
On: June 19, 2017
In: Divorced Moms, Featured Posts
With: 2 Comments

Marriage advice will usually tell you that “marriage is hard work”—and with my first marriage, I certainly found that to be true.  Keeping up with my husband’s demands were exhausting. Trying to be the wife he felt I should be was a lot of work, and I’m sure that heContinue Reading

Celebrations, Anniversaries, and Being Together - Not Alone

Celebrations, Anniversaries, and Being Together – Not Alone

2014-05-20
By: Live by Surprise
On: May 20, 2014
In: Divorce
With: 1 Comment

There came a day about six years into my marriage, just after my ex celebrated his 40th birthday, when I realized his parents would have recently had their 40th wedding anniversary. You might think this an odd thought. Wouldn’t I know? Wouldn’t there have been a celebration of this fateful event? WhyContinue Reading

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Lola's books

Doctor Who: The Forgotten
Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation2, Volume 2
Doctor Who Classics, Vol. 1
Doctor Who: The Eyeless
Chronic Profit: Building Your Small Business While Managing Persistent Pain
Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion
The Other Emily
Tracing Your Ancestors in Lunatic Asylums: A Guide for Family Historians
Memories of Tomorrow
The Mercy of Snakes
Red Rain
The Praying Mantis Bride
Photographing the Dead
In the Heart of the Fire
The Painted Girls
The Other Typist
The Woman Who Stole My Life
Great Shape Hunt, The
Zoe's First Book of Seasons
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey Issue #0


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