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My Kids Think I’m Happy After My Divorce, But Am I?

Does Being Less Angry Qualify as Happy? Or, is there more?

Wendy Cohan
6 min readApr 19, 2022

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Rillo, short for Amarillo, in his prime. And that’s me, a few years ago.

I commented the other day to my son that I don’t hate his father, and that every human has a right to be happy. My husband wasn’t. And now that he’s not my husband, but someone else’s, he is. That’s when my son said, “And you’re…

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Wendy Cohan

Author of character-driven women's fiction, short stories, and essays. Her contemporary romance, The Renaissance Sisters, debuted May 23, 2023.