What Gratitude Really Looks Like After Divorce

Ophelia Turner
4 min readMay 27, 2023

Chronicles of the Determined Divorcee — My ex-husband didn’t go to our twins’ 5th grade graduation and I’m okay with that.

Photo by Dakota Roos on Unsplash

Friday morning I checked my work email and prepared myself for the day ahead. I was working remote and my supervisor was already aware of the fact that I’d be busy that morning. My twins were graduating from fifth grade.

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Ophelia Turner

Dancer with words and my body. Writer of poetry, fiction, and essays. Member of the California Writer’s Club. Determined Divorcee and single mom of 4!