Life After Divorce: Monique Honaman On How To Move On After Divorce

The Heart-Wrenching Question That Ended My Marriage

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How to respond when your spouse tells you he wants out after years of marriage? It's an all-too-familiar experience, and on Thursday, HuffPost blogger Monique Honaman sat down with the "Today" show's Kathy Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb and shared how she reacted when her husband asked for a divorce after 16 years of marriage.

"I got that rhetorical question -- 'How do you think we're doing?' -- and I said, 'What do you mean, how do you think we're doing?'" she recalled. "Seven months later, I was the cliché of a 40-year-old divorced woman with two kids trying to figure out what in the hell just happened in my life."

Watch the video above to hear what Honaman had to say about moving on after divorce, then click through the slideshow below to see which books helped our readers get through their splits.

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