After eleven years of marriage, when it became clear that divorce was the only option, I was consumed by fear: How would I tell my two daughters? If I broke up the family they knew, would it change them irreversibly? Would they understand? It was my job to keep their lives as pain-free as possible, and here I was, about to hurt them beyond measure. It wasn’t easy, but I knew that staying in an unhappy marriage would ultimately be more damaging to them, not to mention to me. I had to be fearless for them: I had to show them that everything would be okay. In doing so, I came to believe it myself.<\/p>\n
What are some of the choices you’ve made that required fearless thinking? Can you list some fearless choices your own parents made that you can appreciate now?<\/p>\n
–Arianna Huffington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After eleven years of marriage, when it became clear that divorce was the only option, I was consumed by fear: How would I tell my two daughters? If I broke up the family they knew, would it change them irreversibly? Would they understand? It was my job to keep their lives as pain-free as possible,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finding-ways-to-be-fearless"],"yoast_head":"\n