Before You Wreck Yourself: One Man's Three-Year Recovery from Divorce

I was getting divorced. My entire life, I thought divorce was not an option. Marriage is forever. Anything less is unacceptable. Everything I thought I knew about myself suddenly became undone. I had done the unthinkable. Who was I now?

For three years, I looked for the answer to that question. I had been married for six years. Something inside me told me I needed three to recover. I wrote a three-year vision in my journal and, but for a few minor detours, stuck to that plan.

I searched for m...