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Winning the Blame Game By Refusing to Play

12/11/08 9:04pm by theAbandonedBride
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         For me, the worst part about being one half of a broken engagement was that it wasn’t all my fault. I can look back and obsessively analyze every misstep and personality flaw that led me to this place, pick them apart, and fix them.  Read more >

I Wouldn't Date Me Either...

11/30/08 7:22pm by theAbandonedBride
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The worst part about being an abandoned bride is feeling that the sigma of being a crazy, permanent-brizezilla-out-for-revenge will follow you for the rest of your life.  Read more >

Brain vs. Body

11/25/08 7:22pm by theAbandonedBride
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The worst part of this broken engagement brouhaha has absolutely nothing to do with weddings or marriage; it’s waking up every morning and going to bed every night alone, alone alone.  Read more >

The Presence of a Silver Lining

11/21/08 10:23am by theAbandonedBride
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The worst part about having your wedding cancelled weeks before the ceremony is that no one knows how to react. And believe me, this is a time in your life when you need people to say and do the right things. You need the people you love to be there, but they don't necessarily know what to do. It's like being in a sudden, tragic storm; the dark clouds both bring the rain you need shelter from and steal the light you needed to find your way home.  Read more >

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after a broken engagement, one ex-bride's attempt to look at what's left, put herself back together, and walk back up the aisle and out into the world

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theAbandonedBride
Member Since
September 2008
About Me: 

On May 20, 2008 my wedding was called off, three weeks before the event. Yikes.

I've been trying ever since to find a balance between denying that this was meaningful to my life in any way and being completely defined by it. Four months later, this blog is my attempt to strike that balance. On this site my identity is the abandoned bride. Allowing myself to do that here frees me up to just be me everywhere else in the world. It allows me to not have to apologize for being so brutally unfunny, uncontrolled and imprecise, among many other stark opponents to aspects of my live-action character.

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