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"I&amp;#039;ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, since the divorce is finally getting in gear and the prospect of dating is looming on the horizon. And yes, I feel like it is &amp;quot;looming&amp;quot;, in all of it&amp;#039;s negative connotations. I need to get out of that headspace, and soon. This should be an adventure, right? A total re-invention of my life. And with that &amp;quot;re-invention&amp;quot; comes some review of the life that went before. I was perusing this article in The Atlantic that profiled which kinds of &amp;quot;happy&amp;quot; couples were most likely to divorce. It comes as little to no surprise that the ones most likely to end a marriage were the ones who didn&amp;#039;t communicate much or effectively. Negative outlook came into play, as well. Oh, was that ever us. Peter would rather have unanesthetized root canal than open his mouth and talk about anything. I&amp;#039;m Miss Chatterbox, over-thinking and over-talking everything, sure that my doing all the extra work was forcing him to work through the process, too. All that ever did was make him more determined to keep his mouth shut, since he probably couldn&amp;#039;t get much of a word in, anyway. Add to that his habit of silently stewing over things until they built to epic proportions and his overall negative outlook on life in general, and we had perfect recipe for disaster. It&amp;#039;s only surprising that we held it together as long as we did. Lessons learned. If my marriage didn&amp;#039;t last, at least let it have taught me something about myself, and about who I plan to spend my time with in the future. What lessons did you learn from your marriage? How did they affect you going forward? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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