The Ballad of Right On.

[the_rat_bat]

I'm reading A Grief Out of Season by Noelle Fintushel and Dr. Nancy Hillard.  It's out of print, and I've only gotten through the first two or three chapters, but damn.  I highly recommend it to anyone whose parents have gone through a divorce or other weird trauma.  There aren't a lot of books for adult children of divorced parents, let alone for

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[syntaxxx]

EEEERRRRTTTTTTTT. (thats the brakes)
Your parents are getting divorced?

I would look on CL in vermont for a place to live, or put an ad in the paper for a room. I highly recommend going the "rent a room from someone" route when moving to a new and far away city. Not only is there no lease, you see people in the face every day thereby stalling the eventual no-social-life depression that is going to kick in.

I am sorry about your ovary and I am wishing for it to only be a cyst or your ancient non-parasidic twin.

[the_rat_bat]

They're not getting divorced - they're just going through a really hard time right now. Reading that book is kind of helping me figure out that all the nasty stuff I've been feeling isn't at all out of the ordinary, nor is it the end of the road.

It's not a self-help book in the sense that it gives you "life lessons" or any of that goddamn tripe. It's just a cross-sectional study, and a petition for more academic interest. Therapists, psychologists, and just people in general tend to react poorly to adults whose parents are going through a divorce or a rough time, because adults are expected to handle things and go on with their lives. No one really imagines that there can be all THAT much of an upheaval if you're smart, have a college degree, a place of your own, et cetera. Kids don't get all snowed in over how much angry weeping is too much. Adults do.

And I have been getting quite a good bundle of places from CL lately. When I looked before, there was nuthin. So here's hoping.