Surviving divorce

It wasn't meant to be this way.
Thirty years of marriage on the scrap heap.
Once our son was 21, and out on his own, we pulled the plug on a stagnant marriage.
No growing old together. No walking hand in hand into the sunset.
An amicable separation, an uncontested filing, a flat rate of $1,000 after a couple of hours with an attorney.
I could have felt like a discarded old biddy, put out to pasture.
But guess what - I'm discovering myself again.
No one waiting for me to cook, clean, launder. After work, my spare time is a whole new social world, with old and new friends, new activities, new hobbies, new volunteer opportunities.
Even solitude -- not to be confused with loneliness -- is a pleasure.
It's a new path -- and no doubt a rocky one -- but each corner I turn reveals a different view.