114: Rewriting the Fairytale: “Soul Sisters Over Soulmates”

Have you ever woken up—kids grown, career humming along, maybe the papers of a divorce finally filed—looked around and thought: Is this it?

There’s a hush that settles in mid-life. For some of us it’s sudden—like the slam of a door after the last child leaves. For others it creeps in as roles we once wore like a second skin begin to loosen.

And with that hush comes an ache we don’t always have language for.

We’re told the cure is to find our ‘other half,’ the one-in-eight-billion soulmate who will be lover, best friend, therapist, cheer squad, co-parent, healer, and cosmic twin flame all in one.

But somewhere deep—so deep we barely whisper it—we know that story doesn’t fit. Maybe it never did.

Let’s name the roots.

Many of us were raised on princess movies where the happy ending arrives when the prince does. Religion, media, and even well-meaning relatives reinforced the script: find a good man and you’ll be safe, fulfilled, complete.

So we hustled for that plotline—then life got real. Bills. Babies. Men who loved us but could not read our souls. Or men who left the minute our complexity felt too heavy.

And if divorce came? The world told us we simply chose the ‘wrong’ prince. Swipe again—maybe the algorithm will do better.

What no one says is that it isn’t him we’re missing. It’s the village we were meant to have, the circle we evolved to rely on. We were never designed to pour our entire emotional ocean into one single cup.

So now what do we do? Join me in this episode as we discover new and beautiful options that would also work well with a potential new relationship.

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