Getting a Divorce

Getting a Divorce is stressful. Here are some articles to help.

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Deflating Your Expectations about the Divorce Process

A woman thinking about her expectations of the divorce process

Unpacking what you thought would happen versus what actually happened in your divorce process can do much to further your healing, this I’ve learned firsthand. When I first started writing this blogpost, my original plan was to write “a divorce success story.” After all, our culture wants us to report on our successes. Even if…

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Divorce and Friendships: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Divorce and friendships

Divorce and friendships can be a tricky thing. Divorce brings out the best and the worst in people, yes, but they don’t make it clear enough that this truth applies to not only you and your partner but the people who make up your world—your colleagues, family members, and friends. Divorce makes people curious: what…

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What Not to Do During Divorce: 7 Must Knows

What not do to during divorce

Divorce, like a marriage, takes mapping and maneuvering. There’s a lot of good common sense advice out there about what to do and what not to do during divorce. But as a writer who is forever curious, I sometimes find the don’ts a more appealing research subject. Divorce is a regular occurrence in the US,…

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What Divorce Does to a Woman: You and Your Money

A woman in a bathtub contemplating what divorce does to a woman

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…

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Advice for Women Who Think They Can’t Afford a Divorce

Thinking about advice for women

Divorce is expensive. While there is, of course, an emotional toll, there is also a heavy financial toll for which many people are not prepared. Even under the best circumstance, divorce is difficult and costly. And while help is out there, when you’re looking for it, you want advice for women wearing your particular set…

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8 Ways to Practice Self Care During & After Divorce

Practicing self care during divorce

We can never know what life has in store for us. As we live through a historical global pandemic, many of us have been forced to reckon with this reality. But regardless of what’s going on in the world right now (or perhaps exactly because of it), what many of us do know is that…

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The Apologetic vs. Unapologetic Woman

Paintings of unapologetic women

Look around. There is a tidal swell of social change that’s rising because women are looking at themselves differently. We are putting more value in our own perspective on ourselves, rather than focusing on what others think. Looking at divorce differently, too—as a means of leveraging possibility and coming through the heat of it with…

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