I’m Learning About Love From My Ex-husband’s Dog

My rocky relationship with “Lucky” is a combination of cursing and unconditional acceptance

Martha Manning, Ph.D.
Age of Empathy
Published in
6 min readMay 23, 2023

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Photo by Will Gardiner on Unsplash

Coming apart

After a 43-year marriage, and a 5-year separation, my husband and I divorced this year. He crushed me. I thought we were happy. But over the separation, I realized that while he was…

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Martha Manning, Ph.D.
Age of Empathy

Dr. Martha Manning is a writer and clinical psychologist, author of Undercurrents and Chasing Grace. Depression sufferer. Mother. Growing older under protest.