This Song Sums Up Divorce Perfectly

Processing relationship trauma via The Waterboys.

Jamie Jackson
Hello, Love
Published in
9 min readDec 1, 2022

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The Waterboys — Live at Rockwood Music Hall, 9.24.19 — Creative Commons License — Credit

A handful of years ago I got divorced. I experienced some trauma.

Trauma is a big word. It’s an impactful word too, if perhaps a little ham-fisted, the type of word to barge into sentences, to punch you in the arm, or disturb the ambience in a fancy restaurant with a loud voice and uncouth…

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Jamie Jackson
Hello, Love

Between two skies and towards the night. // Email me: jamiejacksonati [at] gmail [dot] com