The Connection Podcast - Lauren Dry
Sep 24, 2026 · 52 min · 16 segments
What if the marriage you're grieving could end, and the two of you got to begin a second one? Some love stories take more than one beginning. In this episode of The Connection Podcast, Lauren Dry…
Rebecca MullenGuest
Lauren DryHost
Because while I didn't have the perspective to name it that at the time, I was just so tired.

But really, I like your phrase because it really describes what I can see in retrospect is that the relationship that we had did die.

Now, I am lucky enough that I got to have a second marriage with the same person.

But that six months that we were estranged but still living together, I was so much kinder to him.

The other side was that I, from an energetic standpoint, I kind of snipped the tether between us.

And in fairness, just at a societal level, no one had taught him how to be in a relationship either.

And he didn't know what he would be missing until I snipped that tether of connective tissue.

Because while I didn't have the perspective to name it that at the time, I was just so tired.

But really, I like your phrase because it really describes what I can see in retrospect is that the relationship that we had did die.

Now, I am lucky enough that I got to have a second marriage with the same person.

But that six months that we were estranged but still living together, I was so much kinder to him.

The other side was that I, from an energetic standpoint, I kind of snipped the tether between us.

And in fairness, just at a societal level, no one had taught him how to be in a relationship either.

And he didn't know what he would be missing until I snipped that tether of connective tissue.
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