Sex & Relationships
March 16, 2023 | 12:03
Eat, pray, divorce.
A mum-of-four in the UK had an epiphany about her marriage while on a 10-day girls trip to Greece.
Stephanie Hanson went on holiday with her best friends to Kefalonia in May 2022 to celebrate her 40th birthday.
“I had a moment of clarity in the hotel that I had been miserable in my marriage for as long as I could remember,” Hanson, now 41, told South West News Service. “I had the best time with the girls and the thought of going home to my husband was horrible.”
According to Hanson, the realization came to her while she was at the hotel pool.
“I remember while I was away thinking how I really missed the kids, but I didn’t miss my husband,” she said. “I was in the worst shape of my life and it dawned on me, at home, I was miserable – so I did something about it.”
Hanson said that when she got home, she immediately ended her marriage.
“So when I flew back, I ended it there and then — and I knew I had made the right decision when I saw his reaction,” Hanson told SWNS.
Newly single Hanson said she saw the end of her marriage as a chance to give herself a total makeover.
“After leaving my ex-husband, the next thing I had to do was lose weight,” Hanson said. “The pictures from the holiday made me see what terrible shape I was in, so I started working out at home and changed my diet.”
Hanson began working out and watching her diet — and said she went from weighing 238 pounds to 168.
“It was hard at first, but the motivation of being fresh single carried me through,” Hanson recalled.
In July, Hanson said she met a man named David through Facebook Dating, and the two have been smitten ever since.
“We hit it off right away,” Hanson gushed. “I met him about halfway through my fitness journey, but he didn’t care, he loved me the way I was.
“If I hadn’t gone on that holiday, I’d still be stuck in a marriage with a man I no longer loved, so to be where I am now, I couldn’t be happier.”
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