Life After Divorce
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The Single Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Holidays
Well, single ladies, we’ve only got about 6 weeks to get ready for Christmas and 2 weeks for Thanksgiving. Since we’re flying solo, with kids or without, divorced or just solitary, it’s time to dive into the Single Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Holidays. Break out your Excel sheets, budget planners, and the Xanax. Oh,…
Read MoreDo Women Regret Divorce?
Regret is paying a toll over and over again to drive back onto a bridge we’ve already crossed and park there, staring in the rearview mirror at a lane we could have taken. That doesn’t stop most of us from doing exactly that, though, especially after a divorce. There are countless ways to second-guess ourselves…
Read MoreDating a Man Who is Going Through a Divorce
This is one of those relationship scenarios for which I may not have set a great example, but I did become an excellent cautionary tale. I just didn’t realize I’d be telling it that way 30 years later. Date a man going through a divorce? Yep, I sure did. And that was before the term…
Read MoreHow 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…
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