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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Vicki Milliken

‘I think I was relieved’: life on the other side of mature age divorce

Kate Christie pictured in Flagstaff Gardens in Melbourne, Australia
Kate Christie reflects on life after divorce: what she found was a woman who is confident, tenacious, resilient and happy. Photograph: Nadir Kinani/The Guardian

“I went through this process of feeling like my future had been stolen from me,” says 53-year-old Kate Christie about the end of her 22-year marriage. “He said to me, ‘I don’t love you any more. I want to leave our marriage. I want the chance to meet and fall in love with someone else while I’m still young.’ And that was that.”

“I felt really blindsided. I was angry, upset and resentful.”

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