Jennifer {Jen}
Designer, Writer, and Chef in Carmel, Indiana
Jennifer {Jen}
Designer, Writer, and Chef in Carmel, Indiana
Hi I'm Jennifer
Jen~ for short....
I married at an early age, I was only 19 and never felt I got to do any of the things I really wanted too. All through the marriage I was searching for something, I wasn't faithful, as I should have been I was just too young, I didn't have children at the time. We were together four years before we married and 5 years after we married before children came along. I loved the children aspect of the marriage because I have always adored children so that was fine. I just lost myself somewhere in the process. I wanted to do more traveling, seeing the world, flew as a flight attendant for a short while with ATA. Prior to that, I felt I wanted to go to the extreme in some areasof my life. I wanted to see what it was like to do some of the things I enjoyed. So, when my sister was diagnosed with Throat cancer, it changed me forever. I was working in a Japanese plant that was located about a 30-40 min drive west of me and when I learned of her cancer, I quit my job to care for her, the children were young but old enough to know that their Aunt Benita was very ill. After her death, I knew what I had to do, because I went out to the cemetery and laid on her grave and realized that a part of me had died too. Fed up not only with my marriage but with the small Indiana town in which I resided. No opportunity, different kind of Industry for me...
I gave it a few more months I think not too many after we buried her, I was done, I didn’t care and I was numb to my family, different members of the family I felt could have helped take care of her but, it was over and I had to find a way to move on. One way was that my niece had a new baby she had no business having so I got lost in loving him, and one day when he was old enough he told me I had to leave Uncle Ricky, never forget that in my life. The very next day I went and got an attorney filed, and never ever looked back.
I have had a host of struggles since than, but I wouldn’t go back for anything. I have lost and gained, I have laughed and cried and have had sorrow, but., I wouldn’t go back for anything!
Today I'm still single, had dated a Prominent Attorney at the firm we now, are simply wonderful friends. Divorce is an odd thing, but when it is over it is over!!