I often think of Wikivorce as a lifeboat, trawling the seas of despair, looking for lost souls, and rescuing them. Once on board,  you discover that you are not the only lost soul, there is a whole community of us, all with our own stories to tell and our own emotions to deal with.  The support, advice and friendship to be found in Wiki is amazing, truly amazing. I know that if I hadn’t have found Wiki, I would have drowned in that cold dark sea of despair, and I think the same may be said for others. Sometimes just having someone who will listen to you, no matter how blue you feel, makes the

Sunday. 16th March, would have been my 4th wedding anniversary. It was not a day that I was looking forward to, the weeks leading up to Sunday were painful and difficult. I seemed to be paralysed by my own emotions, my  heart weigthing heavier with each passing day. I did think about my husband on this day, and I know that he will have struggled too, but he has his own ways of trying to cope. I know that we are now apart, that there is no going back, but still I thought of him, as I think of him most days, and I know that he too has his own pain and emtional anguish, and   I am sorry for the

I've spent a great deal of time over the past few months deciding where the girls and I will live once the house is sold. There are many reasons to stay where we are, but at the same time, many reasons to move on and start afresh.

I left my hometown 20 years ago, in search of brighter lights and bigger streets. But I have never really been able to settle anywhere, and feel uncomfortable in calling another place "home". My increasingly frequent trips to visit my sister, who still lives in our hometown, have made me realise that home is exactly where I left it, all those years ago. Every visit