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Imani State of Mind

Getting Real About My Divorce

Imani State of Mind

Imani State of Mind

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Hobbies, Education, Leisure, Self-improvement

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Imani shares how she's been processing the end of her marriage to her partner of 11 years, how she's been coping with being alone and single parenting, and why divorce was the right move for her. Plus, she takes a close look at Spike Lee's latest movie Da 5 Bloods and how it deals with PTSD.

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0:00.0

Full disclosure, we're going to be getting really deep this episode. And when I say really deep, I actually am referring to myself. So some of you guys know, some of you guys don't know that I actually am in the midst of getting a divorce. So we're going to delve a little bit deeper today into my personal business. I'm here to help everyone who's out there listening. So

0:22.9

in any case, my husband Phil and I had been living separately for a few months. This was last year.

0:29.1

And he was starting up a business in Oklahoma. And I was here back in L.A. One day, Phil actually

0:36.5

told me he wasn't coming back to California. And I was,

0:41.0

you know, obviously I was very perplexed. I asked him, I was like, well, you know, what, like,

0:45.4

what are you saying? Like, why not? And truth be told, he said, he was like, listen, I'm starting

0:50.0

up this cannabis business out in Oklahoma. And, you know, I am going to need to physically be there

0:56.7

to be hands on. So I was, you know, I was like, damn, like that's a lot. Like that, I felt,

1:02.3

you know, I was like, that's really fucked up. Now, he did ask me to help pack up his stuff.

1:08.6

And that's when I guess it started to feel really real to me. And I knew

1:12.9

that I was going to have to tell my son, E Dreese, you know, that he, Phil, you know, his father figure,

1:18.8

like his dad was not going to be home, you know, for a while. And even though it was Phil telling me

1:25.5

this and this was his decision to make,

1:27.5

and I was, you know, I was down with it,

1:30.3

I really kind of felt like, I don't know,

1:34.2

I felt frustrated, I felt really like,

1:36.5

like I was somehow failing.

1:38.8

I realized last November,

1:42.0

I realized that I just was doing so much alone and we really weren't communicating

1:49.8

that well over the phone. Not that we were arguing or anything like that, but our conversations

1:55.6

really were just very business. And I woke up one day and I was like, yo, I can't do this shit no more. Like,

2:01.4

I can't, I can't do this. Like, I'm not happy. We don't, when we talk, we don't sound happy.

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