Life After Divorce
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How to Save Money When Traveling Solo After a Divorce
Traveling solo after a divorce can be a healing and empowering experience. It offers the opportunity for self-reflection, growth, and the chance to explore the world at your own pace. While traveling alone may seem more expensive without a partner to share costs, it doesn’t have to be. With careful planning, creativity, and consideration of…
Read MoreSingle After Divorce: 6 Easy Ways to Recommit to Summer
Summer is here, whether our vulnerability is ready for it or not. For many of us women, single after divorce, summer can mean reading others’ out-of-office message replies and wondering where we will go now, now that we’re alone. Maybe, post-divorce we’re not feeling the smörgåsbord of summer choices we used to have. Maybe our…
Read MoreSolo Travel After Divorce: Finding Yourself, Faraway
Not long after my marriage broke up at age 46, I planned a trip to Europe all by myself. I loved the idea of its adventure and its freedom — solo travel after divorce. Just before leaving, I had a conversation with my therapist, who reminded me that I now had a blank canvas on…
Read MoreDivorce for Women: Why It’s Different
For more reasons than we can explain, when it comes to the crisis of a marriage breaking up, divorce for women is different. We all know the tired cliché about a couple driving on the road and what happens when they become lost. The man will keep driving, even driving in circles, says the cliché.…
Read MoreDivorce Rituals: Honoring Your Big Change
When struggling through a divorce, many women look down the road and envision their final divorce decree as their ultimate goal, the culminating prize, the fabled finish line that will signal they have done it: they survived the divorce marathon! It’s natural that this is the case, as so many steps are procedural with divorce.…
Read MoreReinventing After Divorce: How NOT to Date a Married Man
If you are reinventing after divorce and considering the prospect of “getting back out there,” dipping your toes in the exciting and terrifying world of DATING, you might discover you don’t know the first thing about how to begin. What you do know is that we are no longer kids. And we no longer live…
Read MoreA Single Woman on Holiday: 6 Must Do’s for Meeting Yourself
We don’t know what we’ve got till it’s gone. This is true for so many things after divorce, but in this case, I am referring to family vacations, those idealized holidays we took with our children and our husband. Those rare two weeks, where away from the home front, and the grind of our jobs,…
Read MoreDivorce Anniversary: My Third Year of Being Imperfect but Free
It is common for divorced women to underestimate our achievements, our accomplishments, and who we’ve become as a result. After all, many of us are powering on, too busy looking ahead that we never pause to look back. Others of us might still view our divorce as a failure, too, so we refuse to really…
Read MoreHow to Help a Friend Through a Divorce in 18 Loyal Ways
There may not be an infallible method for how to help a friend through a divorce, nor how to pry off the lid she’s got clamped on her real feelings. Sometimes, though, you may wish for a lid to put on her determination to post every insulting meme she can find, and block her from…
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