Reclaiming the Radio—And Everything She Took With It

This Was The Day I FINALLY Took My Life Back After My Divorce

One of my great victories since my divorce has been reclaiming the radio.

I was in a very codependent relationship for 8 years. Over all that time, my ex dominated the radio in the car 100% of the time. No exceptions.

Don’t get me wrong, she had pretty good taste in music.

However…

I became alienated from my taste in music. I forgot how much music enriched my soul. I was wholly alienated from myself.

Why did she dominate the radio?

Why did I go along with it?

These are questions I can spend an eternity thinking about. After a certain point, I accept what happened.

I was living with a control freak who had to have absolutely everything her way.

My need for her approval was weaponized against me. I hated it when she criticized my taste in music. She only had to tear me down a few times before I shrunk myself to invisibility — giving her free reign to control the radio whenever we were in the car together.

We lived in the middle of nowhere and were attached at the hip. We both worked from home, a…