How can a Facebook post help a woman get back on track after a brutal divorce after 30 years of marriage? It is this woman’s inspiring story that she shares today.
In a long testimony, Stéphanie recounts how her husband suddenly announced to her his desire to divorce, under the pretext that they were “better as friends” and that he needed to move “be located”. Devastated by this brutal announcement, this woman started consulting Facebook to distract herself. “I came across my first motivational quote while scrolling through social media trying to distract myself. ‘Know your worth’, she urged, vague enough to target anyone desperate, including me,” she explains.
A simple little Facebook post that will ultimately have a very significant impact on his life. “Thanks to the almighty Meta algorithm, the more I liked the sentences on love of self, breakups and healing, the more they appeared”, explains Stephanie. As time goes by, Stéphanie sees more and more posts with inspiring phrases like “It’s okay to feel broken. It’s okay to feel overwhelmed.”Or “He’s not running from you, darling, he’s running from himself. Let him go.”
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Phrases that may seem banal but which in reality became his lifeline during this difficult period. For Stéphanie, the more time passed, the more embarrassed she felt to confide to her friends how much she was still suffering from her divorce. “I cried every day. I still didn’t know how to navigate life without the person who had been by my side my entire adult life.” confides the lonely woman.
“These daily doses nourished me at a time when I could barely resolve to eat, where the acid boiled in my stomach and my overactive brain kept me from sleeping”, confides Stéphanie. For her, these Facebook posts were even more important support than her divorce support group.
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Several times a day, sentences like “You can’t make them love you by loving them harder,” Or “You can’t save the relationship if the other person isn’t willing to save it too,” reason in his mind. Phrases that become a mantra, a philosophy of life and ultimately a therapist “infinitely cheaper and more available”.
Phrases that Stéphanie quotes without moderation: “If you don’t leave your past in the past, it will destroy your future. You must live for what today gives you. Not for what yesterday took away from you.” These messages allowed him to anchor himself. They strengthened her shattered self-esteem and helped her remember her strength, her resilience, and the good things in her life. “Healing does not mean that the damage never existed. It means that the damage no longer controls your life.”
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