I am thinking about the stories of “the way life is supposed to go” followed by the difficulty of how to manage when the stories get altered by some major life occurrence. Examples of the sorts of events that change our stories include untimely death of a loved one, a major illness, being terminated from a job, an extramarital affair, a divorce, and any number of others, both good and bad (yes, even the good unexpected changes can be difficult).

In this case, I can draw from my own life. When my mom and dad got married, my dad was in the Navy and life laid out before them in a very positive narrative. Dad

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