Life After Divorce
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How to Date After Divorce and Know You’re Ready
How will I know? That’s right, it’s the title of a Whitney Houston song, but also something many divorced women ask themselves when considering if they’re ready to start dating again. You could ask a hundred people the same question, and I guarantee you’d get a hundred different answers. If you’re anything like me, the…
Read MoreHealing After Divorce for Women
The paperwork is signed. Your ex-partner has moved on. Your friends assume you’re moving on. Maybe you’re even at the point of telling everyone, “I’m good, now.” But late at night, when the house is quiet, the kids are asleep, and all you can hear is the sound of silence, you’re wondering why you’re still…
Read MoreSummer is the Season for Divorcee Dating. What Does This Mean for You?
A study by Custody X Change found that summer is the most popular season for divorcees to start dating again. What does this mean for you, where you find yourself, and your specific change of seasons? Getting back into dating after divorce is often daunting. The Divorcee Dating Study found that many women wait years…
Read MoreThe Art of Reinvention After Divorce: 5 Women Share Their Stories
Let’s be honest, as much as we would love to reinvent our lives after divorce, the cold, hard truth is it doesn’t happen overnight. A lot of women I know (married or divorced) imagine reinvention to be dramatic, riveting, and something so radically different from one’s norm that it must resemble more skydiving than navigating…
Read MoreLife After Divorce: 6 Dating Tips on How to Show Up
You might be thinking about dating now that you’ve arrived here in this land of the unknown, your life after divorce; and this particular aspect of it can be intimidating, exciting, and frankly, straight-up terrifying. When my marriage ended I was, or so I thought, eager to start dating, and I set up an online…
Read MoreHealing After a Divorce You Didn’t Want
Martha still remembers the defining, shocking moment that completely turned her world upside down. John, her husband of nineteen years, quietly walked into the kitchen that memorable morning as she was waiting for her coffee to brew. He walked up behind her and whispered, “I want a divorce. I can’t live like this anymore.” The…
Read MoreManaging Your Living Expenses After Divorce
I remember a friend of mine once saying to me, “Divorce sucks!” Of course, she was right in more ways than I could have ever imagined. For I was to learn firsthand, years later, divorce costs us, emotionally and financially. I, as a woman, a wife, a mother, felt a deep sense of failure, but I…
Read MoreYour Ex-Husband’s Harassment: How to Deal with It Emotionally and Legally
Nobody really talks about the harassment you may face after divorce. There’s this common belief that once you leave the marriage, the bullying stops. But for many women, that isn’t how it plays out. In fact, harassment, intimidation, and hostility can sometimes increase after leaving an ex-husband. This behavior is often rooted in a need…
Read MoreMy Experience of Parallel Parenting as a Mother
I never realized that what my daughter experienced after our divorce was parallel parenting. To my Ex, his parental duties included paying a pitiful amount of child support for my child from the age of four when we divorced till she turned 18, a sum that he never increased by one cent. He thought he…
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