Life After Divorce
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Axe the Anger After Divorce in 4 Steps
Step 1: Buy Crazy Glue. For many of us, all joking aside, contending with the feelings, and in particular, anger after divorce is an ongoing miserable reality. Divorce and its legions of emotions disrupt everything you know and (used to?) hold sacred in your world. No, your marriage was never supposed to end up this…
Read MoreDivorce and Life Insurance: 5 Critical Things to Know
When you are setting up your new life during a divorce, life insurance may not be the most pressing thing on your mind (ahem, we suspect it’s not on your mind at all!) and yet it plays a crucial role. Many of us don’t understand life insurance, nor recognize how necessary it is for protecting…
Read MoreDivorce Recovery: Cocktail Parties & “Can’t Miss” Financial Opportunities
You’re in that divorce recovery place — post-settlement, but still navigating your newly found independence, when the invitation arrives, by old-school snail mail, e-mail, or text. You’re excited, you’re invited to a cocktail party! You start thinking about how much fun you will have, or what the might night hold … the party’s unusual location…
Read MoreDivorce Recovery: 10 Things to Do if Suddenly in Charge of Your Finances
Are you somewhere in your divorce recovery, facing your fear — the sudden, terrifying reality of managing your money? Or, are you a brave woman saying, “It’s time to get real and start acting on behalf of myself!”? No matter what brings you to this point, a split, a divorce, or the fact that you…
Read MoreDating After Divorce in 10 Steps
Dating after divorce is just one aspect of your plan going forward. Good, you understand that. You know that as a newly independent woman there are many things you need to address right now, and that maybe, just maybe dating shouldn’t be your first priority … But, another part of you is thinking,“Yeah, uh, huh,…
Read MoreDivorce Recovery: An Exercise Before Dating
You were not expecting this so soon, but here you stand, transfixed, in the doorway of a dimly lit cafe, your throat closing up and your chest tightening, watching a man who looks quite similar to his profile pictures. Could he be “The One” you wonder? You’ve had a tantalizing preamble of just the right amount…
Read MoreDivorce, Grief and 3 Harmful Myths
Time heals all wounds. Umm, that’s nonsense. So is “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all,”“There are lots of fish in the sea,” and all the other inane things people say to you when you are suffering through a divorce, looking for solace and grieving. People mean well,…
Read MoreI Thought Getting a Divorce Would Be the End of Me. It Wasn’t!
Did you claw your way though the holidays and then find yourself fantasizing about getting a divorce? You aren’t alone. January actually has the nickname “Divorce Month,” if you can believe it. Turns out, January is not the only month with this dubious distinction. If you Google “divorce month,”< spoiler alert> you’ll see other articles…
Read MoreDivorce Support: Your Holiday Survival Guide
As we move toward and into December, we are off and running with the holiday marathon. It’s a chaotic time for many, but the stress and overwhelm are on steroids for those of us divorcing. So, in anticipation of what you are going through, here are a few things to remember to give you the divorce…
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