This is just a realization I've (33F) arrived at lately.

I was disowned by my parents and siblings for a few years because I'm an atheist and my family is very very very religious. We started speaking again two years ago but in that time I've had my marriage break down and going through an ugly divorce in a foreign country. My family hasn't reached out and barely speak to me. My brother stopped contact with me again after a very stupid fight about how I should behave in front of his indoctrinated children.

I'm going through a very lonely time. Alone in a country I just moved to, getting a divorce, isolated from my friends back where I used to live. And yet, I feel stronger than in the past. I realised I kept trying again and again to build some relationship with my family but it was totally one sided. Now I just stop. And I feel more able to live without them. It's been ten years since I left them and they dumped me. Lots of years on my own, lots of experiences. I've always been alone through it all and now I realise, I can do it. I can take better care of myself than they ever did.

Very different feeling even from a few years ago. But I feel powerful. And wise. And free. Excited for what this energy will attract in the universe.