Managing 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 MoreWhat States Allow Common Law Marriages?
The US states that allow common law marriages can vary from one state to another, so it’s time to give SAS readers the latest update. In this piece, we’ll review what a common law marriage is and which US states accept common law marriage. We’ll also go through the list to give you an idea…
Read MoreHow Does My Divorce Make You Feel?
I can still remember the exact moment I even dared to Google the horrific word “divorce.” My chest was tight, I felt a lump in my throat, and my cheeks immediately flushed. I never thought in a million years that I would be in that place, googling what I felt was the most forbidden word…
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…
Read MoreTrue Life Signs of a Silent Divorce in a Woman
Are you living inside a marriage that, from all outward appearances, looks entirely normal, appropriate, even, and fine to the rest of the world? But inside the house, and even deeper, inside your inner world, you are detached, separated, and living as mere roommates with your spouse? Is it just the way things are? You…
Read MoreCommon Law Marriage: What You Must Know
I never realized I had been “married” twice to the same man. (Heaven help me!) As I was asked to research common law marriage for SAS for Women, which I have done in great detail below, I came across a fact that common law marriage involves a couple living together, which my Ex and I…
Read More13 Reasons Why Men Stay Married in Unhappy Marriages
There’s good news and bad news about why men stay married. The good news is that with a well-run household and the wife’s contribution to the family budget, the husband is highly unlikely to leave. The bad news is that it isn’t necessarily out of love or even gratitude. Before I went through my own…
Read MoreHow to Survive Divorce When It Looks Hopeless
There’s a stretch of time during divorce when everything feels dim. Hope doesn’t disappear all at once. It fades. One day, you realize you’re moving through your life with a heaviness you didn’t have before. Divorce, or even the thought of it, can feel like standing on unstable ground. You’re grieving what was. You’re questioning what…
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