May 4 - May The… in These Foolish Things

May 4, 2024, 7:39 a.m.
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Yeah, yeah. That nerdy day is here.

I don’t have a lot of time to write because I’m here in Nashville with my girls and I need to get up and get my workout in before it becomes too late in the morning.

But I will want to come back and write about this, I know…because it blows my mind.

As soon as I landed in Nashville and Wen and Lis picked me up, we went to Wen’s house where we’re all staying and had some snacks and a few drinks (yes, all mine were non-alcoholic), and Lis said she had something to tell me.

It was something she’d kept from ALL of us during our girls trip in November. None of us had any idea during that time and now she’s letting people know one by one and little by little… (so Wen already knew):

She’d just gone through a divorce.

Okay, that kind of stuff happens, right? People get divorced every day and it’s heartbreaking and painful and downright awful. It can be hugely traumatic and extremely costly and alllllllll that stuff. It changes your whole life trajectory!

But have you ever heard of someone in the thick of a traumatic experience and not tell even their closest girlfriends while on a girls trip where the whole point is to have togetherness and to be vulnerable with them?!

Like I said, I have so much more to say, but I do have to get going.

But y’all already know I have to come to Prosebox to barf any news out, big or small, so here I am - baffled as ever by people who don’t barf things out themselves. Hahaha.

I love you and I love my girls.
See you soon,
GS

colder ⋅ May 04, 2024

I wonder if maybe it all blew up right before a long planned trip and it was easier to have fun than to go into it? I might feel like I didn’t want to put a damper on things for everyone if it were me. But I am a stuffer and not a barfer so I may also have just kept it stuffed for a later time when I was more over it. Anyway, have a super fun trip! 🙂

ninakir88 ⋅ May 04, 2024

prob didnt want to ruin her mood on the girls trip

pandora ⋅ May 04, 2024

I cannot imagine keeping that in, wow! My close friend and colleague went through a divorce, moved into a condo downtown, and had shared custody of her daughters throughout, and didn't say anything to me about it for like six or eight months maybe? It was the strangest thing when I found out. I'd been picturing all of her anecdotes one way, like when she talked about her daughters, I pictured her in the big family home in the suburbs with the husband and pets, etc, but really it was at a downtown condo - it was just so weird!