Why this book exists
A focused place to understand what is happening
People keep asking Ondine how the divorce is going, and she has stopped being able to answer. Not out of reticence. The problem is arithmetical. There is no answer, because there are six answers and they contradict each other. She is forty-four, she has two children, and she was married for sixteen years. It ended eleven months ago. And here is the part that costs her: she ended it. Nobody brought her a casserole. There is a script for the woman who was left, and it involves sympathy, and Ondine does not qualify. So: how is the divorce going?
The writing is designed to reduce shame, bring the underlying pattern into view and give you practical ways to respond without pretending that every life follows the same formula.
