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A New Life Chapter Five: Getting Over It
Alison’s life becomes a roller coaster of emotions and problems. Will she ever find stability?
It had been two weeks since the breakup with Henry, and we had no contact with each other. I drowned myself in my work and tried to forget about him, but it was more challenging than I expected.
It became clear that I wasn’t ready to return to the dating world. I blamed myself for the problems with Henry; he was a good man, and I tore him down because he wasn’t good in bed.
All kinds of thoughts filled my head. Maybe I could have ignored it. Perhaps I went too far.
I sat down with my friends and asked if they had encountered the same problems. Since they, too, had gone through the same thing as I had.
“He’s a man,” Jacquelyn shrugged. “Nathan was the same way at the beginning.”
Jacquelyn, the most outgoing of all of us, had been married to a police commissioner before everything went down. Now, she was happily divorced and seeing her neighbor.
“But’s he’s, well you know,” Sabrina said.
“No, I don’t,” Jacquelyn shook her head. She was teasing Sabrina, who was more introverted than the rest of us.
