The Best Things Come From a Dramatic Break Up With Your Ex Husband, Right?

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Kelly Wallace: I'm divorced three years when my son was two years old, i found out my husband had been having a year's long affair with his co worker and was in love with her. We separated, and shortly after, i fould for divorce. My x and the other woman now own a home together 15 minutes away, so we can co parent our son. When i send my son to his dads, he's often with the girl friends, and she bathes him, she feeds him, she loves him. But i cannot get past my anger and the pain the two of them have caused me. How do i rise above? Because my son is what matters here.

1. Pod Squad Qs about co-parenting after infidelity, setting boundaries with friends, and reconciling an estranged parent relationship.

2. How to know when it’s time to leave, and whether your partner deserves to be free of you.

3. Why every problem Cheryl’s ever had has been solved by a list–and how to use her strategy.

4. Ways to be a better advice-giver, and how to keep “floating in the direction of your own life.”

5. How to gather the courage to know a truth thing–and to live by it.

About Cheryl

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, as well as the bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough, and Torch.

Wild was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.

Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a TV show for Hulu and will star Kathryn Hahn.

In addition to writing her widely acclaimed essays, stories and scripts, Strayed has hosted two hit podcasts for the New York Times — Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars, which she co-hosted with Steve Almond.

She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband Brian Lindstrom and their two teenagers.

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