Happily Ever After Marriage
A Reinvention in Mid-life
Earlier in my post-divorce life, I thought marriage would never happen again for me. Having exited a painful one, I had no desire to enter another. Why would anyone want to repeat a difficult experience? . . . I felt that my heart would never be as trusting as it once was. I had lost my faith in marriage. I wasn’t sure it was the best custodian of love. And I still feared how the wife identity could sabotage me. I was content to sit to the side and let others have their turn at giving the institution a whirl. – from Happily Ever After Marriage: There’s Nothing Like Divorce to Clear the Mind by Sarah Hampson
After eighteen years of…
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January 4, 2011
Sarah Hampson is an award-winning journalist with the Globe and Mail. She has been writing the Hampson Interview column for over ten years. In 2007, she began her popular weekly Generation Ex column about marriage and divorce. She also writes Currency, a weekly column about the way we spend money. Hampson lives in Toronto, and has three sons in their twenties.
Hampson began her career in journalism in 1993, when she started to write for magazines as a freelance contributor. For her work in publications such as Toronto Life, Report on Business, Chatelaine and the now-defunct Saturday Night, she won several National Magazine Awards, including three Golds. She has also written for publications in England, including the Observer.
In 1999, the Globe…
