Wine, Sex, and Suicide: My Near Death Divorce

Description

A heartbreakingly raw, day-to-day journal showing the depths of despair of an abandoned wife who battles the conflicting desires to numb the pain while wanting to move on and live a peaceful life with meaning and purpose.

For 17 years, Patty Blue Hayes saw her identity as her husband’s wife. When the marriage ended abruptly, she spiraled into an abysmal darkness. Splashed with her intimate thoughts, her day-to-day struggle paints a picture of a woman disconnected from her true self and illustrates the dangerous aftershocks of being a dependent spouse.

Wine, Sex and Suicide: My Near Death Divorce takes us on a colorful journey from a small village in Romania where the author volunteered at an orphanage for her first Christmas alone, to dive bars and dance clubs in Hollywood where she sought validation from men to cope with her husband’s infidelity, and to the stark clinical backdrop of the psychiatric hospital when she sunk to her lowest point.

Laced with humor, the author’s story will speak to those who’ve ever felt broken and lost. Her determination to heal will give hope to others who may be going through the dark night of the soul that it is possible to transcend the pain and find purpose.