After My Husband Departed For Work, I Secured Our $650,000 And Filed For Divorce

the divorce became a process of rediscovery. I used a portion of the settlement to fulfill a dream Mark had always dismissed as “impractical” and “financially irresponsible”: I opened a small boutique coffee shop in a leafy neighborhood near Lincoln Park.

I named it “The Second Chapter.”

The shop was everything Mark’s life wasn’t—warm, authentic, imperfect.continue reading …