Unmarried: A Memoir of Motherhood, Family, and the Life I Built (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798258078810)

Set in Ontario, Canada, Unmarried is a deeply personal memoir of motherhood, family, separation, and rebuilding a life across two homes.

Dr. Rina Raichada had built the life she was raised to believe in: marriage, children, a respected dental career, family, community, and a home that looked complete from the outside.

But inside that life, something had quietly begun to unravel.

In Unmarried: A Memoir of Motherhood, Family, and the Life I Built, Rina shares the intimate journey of a woman navigating separation, single motherhood, co-parenting, identity, and the emotional health of a family in transition. This is not a story about blame. It is a story about what happens when a woman stops trying to hold together a life that no longer fits and begins building one that is honest, stable, and fully her own.

From childhood in Dar es Salaam to dental school in Boston, from marriage and motherhood to rebuilding her home in Ontario, Rina traces the moments that shaped her understanding of family, responsibility, endurance, and self-worth. She writes with clarity and vulnerability about the silence inside a marriage, the decision to separate, the pain of telling her children, and the work of creating stability across two homes.

At the heart of this memoir is a mother's commitment to protect her children's sense of security. Rina refuses to define her family as broken. Instead, she creates a new language for what remains: two homes, one family, the same love.

As she adjusts to co-parenting, and life as a single parent, she also discovers a different kind of strength. The quiet weeks without her children become a space for reflection, healing, prayer, professional growth, and self-reclamation. Her new home becomes more than a house. It becomes a place of laughter, routines, grandparents, holidays, community, and belonging.

Unmarried is a Canadian memoir rooted in Ontario, but its themes are universal: motherhood, family relationships, emotional resilience, identity, and the courage to rebuild when life changes form.

For anyone navigating separation, single parenting, co-parenting, family change, or the uncertain space between what ended and what comes next, this book offers a powerful reminder:

A family can change shape without losing its love.

A woman can begin again without losing herself.

And sometimes, the life you never imagined becomes the life you were meant to build.

Author: Rina Raichada DMD
ISBN-13: 9798258078810
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d