Author and creator Hadassah Ben Ari has shared a raw and complex reflection on the emotional process she's been navigating since her divorce, and on writing a new book that grapples with precisely these questions.
"Why do people get divorced. I'm asking this question seriously," Ben Ari opened. "G-d is my witness that you could set a Guinness record for the time it took me to say the word divorced. Divorcing. Divorce. Quite a few people wrote to me, well, maybe you'll write a book about divorcées too. Oh G-d, I thought. Why would you think that, what do I even have to say. Why do we have to write about every pain."
Despite her initial reluctance, Ben Ari described how she found herself drawn back to the keyboard: "I found myself following a brazen hand that pulled me to the keyboard and started writing a book that personally makes me laugh oceans and also cry, and at its center is a divorced woman. She's not connected to me, of course. She doesn't tell my story, of course. But she asks the questions I ask myself: what is love. How do you walk in love inside a weary world and is there a path that doesn't go through childhood wounds and other pains."
