Posts Tagged ‘dating after divorce’
Life 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 MoreDating After Divorce: When Your Kids Say NO
When it’s finally over, when you now check off a new box for “marital status,” what becomes of love? You are officially divorced, but will you ever experience love again? Do you even have the energy for it? The only way to find out, of course, is to educate—and risk—your heart. And that means dating.…
Read MoreFinding Your Sexy Again After Divorce
There must be millions of articles, books, essays, studies and memoirs out there about sex. There are thousands of variations on the topic. People have been philosophizing about this subject in one way or another for eons. Some experts even focus specifically on finding your sexy again after divorce. And not one of them is…
Read More3 Major Relationship Mistakes Women Make After Divorce
When it comes to dating in your new, independent life, you’ll want to steer clear of these relationship mistakes divorced women make time and time again. If you have divorced or gone through the breakup of a long-term relationship, then you know your fears about moving forward. You worry you’ll attract the same kind of…
Read More10 Mind-Blowingly Good Things About Life Post-Divorce
Divorce is nothing to look forward to. It’s certainly not a line item on your walk-down-the-aisle bucket list. So imagining your life post-divorce isn’t likely to be on your radar until you are in the throes of losing your marriage. It’s also not likely to leave you feeling hopeful about your future. But divorce, like…
Read MoreLove After Divorce: How about a “LAT” Relationship?
It was love after divorce. But when my BF and I bought a house together — but chose not to get married — we found ourselves under a lot of pressure from a variety of people to reconsider, to bind the financial risk with marriage, thereby rendering the choice that much more difficult to wriggle…
Read MoreThe Sweetness of Living Alone After Divorce
This piece is done in part from the first person, very much as we might write in our own journals, for a specific reason. One of the greatest and most unexpected gifts we find “under the tree” when living alone after divorce is our authentic self. A journal is a way to give voice to…
Read MoreDivorce in the Time of Coronavirus: 30 Ways to Be Prepared and Stay Committed to You
There is a lot of uncertainty right now due to the coronavirus. Things seem to be changing by the hour. But here are 30+ ways women considering or affected by divorce can use extended time at home to take care of themselves — and their families. When the coronavirus (COVID-19) is at last behind us,…
Read MoreHow Long Does It Take to Get Over a Divorce? And 4 Signs You are On Your Way
There’s a saying about getting over someone—that it takes half the time you spent together to truly move on. That means six months of wallowing for a year-long relationship—time that might drag on endlessly, or time that might fly by faster than you can blink. But for longer relationships? Those marriages that have spanned years…
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