Contemplating Divorce
Should I divorce? Should I stay for the kids? How will I survive?
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What Divorce Does to a Woman: You and Your Money
The chances are fairly good that if you are a woman with school-age children and you are looking at getting divorced, you are facing a drain on your financial resources with no fast recovery in sight. While marriage generally has a positive effect on financial health—due in part to tax incentives and thousands of laws…
Read MoreWill Marriage Become Obsolete?
With the steady downturn in the number of new marriages and the 40 to 50 percent chance that existing ones will end in divorce, it would be comforting to think that marriage has become obsolete, or that, at the very least, successfully navigating the end of a legally-binding partnership would somehow be written into our…
Read MoreYour Inner Voice and the 9 Warning Signs of Divorce
It’s funny because it’s true: If it were easy to hear our inner voice, there wouldn’t be so many of us reminding each other how to do it. And when that voice is telling us that something is rotten in the state of our marriage, or simply that we just don’t fit inside it anymore,…
Read MoreWhat is the Difference Between a Marriage Annulment and Divorce?
A marriage annulment may seem like a thing of the past, but the legal process is still very much alive and could be an alternative to divorce. Annulment of a marriage can take place in both religious and secular societies, although it may be more common in the former. To put it simply, an annulled…
Read MoreWill the Pain of Divorce Ever Go Away?
Sitting down with this question for the first time, my immediate response was a smile that I felt in my solar plexus. Will the pain of divorce ever go away? Of course it will—no hesitation there. But that doesn’t mean that leaving or being left by a spouse and coming to grips with the aftermath…
Read MoreHow to Prepare for Divorce If You Are a Stay-At-Home-Mom
When you have built your life around your relationship and family—even considering leaving that life behind can make you feel like a complete fraud. So how do you prepare for divorce if you are a stay at home mom? (Or STAHM.) When, sometimes, it seems like the real question you’re asking yourself is less should…
Read MoreWhat to Do If You Are Dealing with an Unwanted Divorce
Your husband took you by surprise—but not the good kind. You never saw the end of your marriage coming. For many of us, that’s how it happens. One night you’re looking at Airbnb’s for a trip to Mexico with “Suzy and Ed,” your long-time married friends, your parallel soulmates whom you always travel with now…
Read More6 Crazy Facts That Increase Your Risk of Divorce
We romanticize our relationships, ignoring all the divorce facts and advice out there in favor of writing our own story. That story is the one you pull out when a friend, family member, or coworker asks you that dreaded question: what happened? It’s a question that’s almost impossible to answer because relationships are not linear,…
Read MoreWhy Women Leave Men
If we’re trying to understand why women leave men they love—often digging up their roots after years of emotional cultivation—maybe we should first ask what we’re seeking from a long-term, committed relationship to begin with. Both women and men seek marriage and other forms of partnership. The search isn’t exclusive to those of us with…
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