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Ethan Slater’s ex-wife Lilly Jay writes essay about divorce

Ethan Slater’s ex-wife Lilly Jay writes essay about divorce

Ethan Slater’s ex-wife, Dr. Lilly Jay, talks about her divorce Evil Star. In a personal essay for The cutLilly wrote, “No one gets married thinking about getting divorced, just like we don’t get on a plane expecting to crash.” But I do Really I never thought I would get a divorce. Especially not right after the birth of my first child and certainly not in the shadow of my husband’s new relationship with a celebrity.”

Lilly went on to write about her experiences as a psychologist specializing in women’s mental health, saying, “Training to be a psychologist solidified my distance from social media,” while “my partner took a different path involving social media and public relations were not the case.” obstacles, but necessities. On walks, over pizza, in our apartment, we puzzled over this predicament and excitedly invented rules of conduct for how and what he would say about our life together.”

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During filming, Lilly continued to talk about her and Ethan’s move to England Evilsaid: “I confidently moved to another country with my two-month-old baby and my husband to support his career. Consumed by the magic and mundanity of new motherhood, I didn’t understand the growing distance between us.”

“I am diligently working on my private project of accepting the sudden public demise of my marriage,” she writes. “This, I tell myself, is nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to hide. Slowly but surely, I have come to believe that without the life I had planned with my high school sweetheart, there is a life full of sweetness waiting for me and my child. While our relationship has changed, our parenting has not. We both love our son 100 percent, regardless of how our parenting time is divided.”

She also spoke about her experience with postpartum depression, saying: “Throughout my adult life, I feared that loss of control and postpartum depression would destroy me. One day I checked in London and found that they had both arrived. And I’m fine. When I can no longer be invisible, I can also imagine myself. Do you know how a sponge absorbs liquid most effectively when it is already a little wet? Maybe in this way we can reflect on my messy, not-so-personal life: a dose of my own loss, my anger, my powerlessness, my sadness that helps me hold yours.”

Read Lilly’s full essay here.

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