Starting Over
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Newbie intro
Hi ladies, I've been on theknot/thenest for a while but recently divorced so I thought it was time I officially "started over" 
I have a great boyfriend now, we haven't been together too long but so far so good (mostly!)
As me anything if you'd like
Re: Newbie intro
Welcome!
What's the backstory on your marriage/divorce? Kids?
Thanks!
The short version of the story is that he was very controlling. Tried to tell me how to do pretty much everything. He even tried to tell me how to be a mother (we have one son). I tried for years to make him happy and we seemed pretty happy. Then I had some medical issues and he just didn't understand or try to help me through that. Ultimately I had an affair with an old high school boyfriend. I decided to leave the marriage after that. Not to be with my ex, but because I knew I wasn't happy and I felt really terrible about what I had done to him (the affair). Yes, he was an ass but he didn't deserve his wife to cheat on him. I think I did it mostly as an escape, so I knew what I needed to do. We had a pretty easy divorce, just used a mediator and then it was finalized after like 6 months because the courts were backed up. Probably helped that we didn't have much to fight over. We rented and I just left and let him have the place and all the contents.