After 2 divorces, I spent 2,000 hours cross-stitching and learned to let go of perfection
Source: Business Insider ·
A new hobby helped me recognize the difference between mistakes worth correcting and imperfections I could simply learn to live with.
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The author (not pictured) said a newfound hobby of cross-stitching helped her heal after a divorce.enigma_images/Getty ImagesWhen my second marriage fell apart, I picked up cross-stitching to distract myself.When I made an error, I wanted to give up rather than unravel hours of work.More than 2,000 hours into my hobby, I learned that moving on doesn't always mean undoing mistakes.When my second marriage fell apart, I became obsessed with what I could have done differently. Alone in a deafeningly quiet house that had once been filled with my husband and three stepchildren, I replayed conversations and glaring warning signs.My best friend brought me a beginner's cross-stitching kit. It seemed the worst possible match for my mental state: an exacting, painstakingly slow process of impaling an open-weave cloth in fussy X-shapes where a single miscounted thread can ruin the entire pattern hundreds of hours later.But I was desperate for something to occupy my mind other than the…
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