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Single Gray
If you’re an older individual and suddenly single, know you are not alone.
You’ve spent your entire life giving to everyone else. You’ve been the loving wife, the selfless mother, and the caring child. You’ve taken care of everyone in your life without a second thought. Then, you wake up one day and find yourself alone. The spouse is gone, the children are grown, and the parents have moved on. Everything you’ve ever known has suddenly changed. So, where do you go from here?
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Christine Graves. I’m the editor of a few publications here on Medium, including Enticing the Muse and Amusing Responses. And today, I’d like to introduce my newest publication, Single Gray.
Single Gray is aimed at the older woman who has suddenly found herself facing a life alone. This may be due to a spouse’s passing or empty nest syndrome. Or it may be from a late-in-life divorce, or “gray divorce”. I, myself, am an older woman, and I’ve spent the past three years dealing with my “gray divorce”.
After a very messy first marriage, I found myself married to my high school sweetheart, 30 years after the fact. We’d both been through ugly first marriages, raised families, lived our lives, then found ourselves alone.
We had a wonderful marriage, or so I thought. For ten years, we did all the things old…
