Reflections on heartbreak: Navigating breakups and embracing growth in non-monogamy

Liz Sinclair
7 min readFeb 6, 2024
Photo by Tiago Bandeira on Unsplash

I have recently been staring down the barrel of a major breakup with my husband after our non-monogamous arrangement blew up. It’s been a painful few months and I have been wallowing in some pretty major self-pity. By chance, I found a draft blog I’d written a couple of years ago about how I felt when one of my boyfriends broke up with me. The pain…

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Liz Sinclair

Ordinary, middle-aged, university educated, working mother of three in a long-term loving marriage. Oh, and also non monogamous.