Posts Tagged ‘divorce and emotions’
Happiness After Divorce: Your Sexual Reawakening
During the last ten years of my marriage, I had zero interest in sex. Actually, it may have even been a negative amount of interest. Ten years is a long time. I chalked my disinterest up to two kids and getting older (I was in my late 30s, so I was clearly trying to rationalize…
Read MoreContemplating Divorce Can Keep You Spinning
Recently, when I was unpacking boxes and settling into my new house, I came across something that seemed to speak to me from a different lifetime. It was my old journal, written years ago, during the months leading up to my decision to get divorced: “I feel as if I am living in the twilight…
Read More3 Ways to Handle Divorce and Anger, If Things Are Getting Ugly
Love and Marriage, horse and carriage … divorce and anger obviously go together too, right? Well … at the very end of the season finale of #DivorceonHBO we hear the main character Frances, who is divorcing her husband, leave this voicemail for her husband: “I imagine that, somehow, you didn’t bother to think through this imbecilic move – you simply wanted to fuck me at any cost. But you have made a terrible, awful, IRREPARABLE mistake. And you’ve LOST, Robert. You have lost EVERYTHING now!”
Read MoreDivorce Advice: How to Get Over Paralyzing Fear
In this follow up article, excerpting highlights from her interview on Progressive Radio Network, SAS Cofounder and divorce coach Kimberly Mishkin offers divorce advice to women who are thinking about the frightening steps to divorce. Why is divorce so scary? Each of us has our own unique set of fears, but for so many of…
Read MoreDivorce Coaching: The Female Take
Read excerpts from SAS Cofounder and Divorce Coach Kimberly Mishkin’s interview on “Women’s Rights in the Workplace” (Progressive Radio Network, January 2015) as she discusses the ideas behind SAS for Women®, the specific needs women have facing divorce, and the unusual role of divorce coaching with PRN.com hosts Jack Tuckner and Deborah O’Rell. To listen…
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 MoreYour Emotional Quandary: A Separation or a Divorce?
Let’s talk about what brings you to this dilemma, ladies. Are you like I was, wanting to take baby steps to resolve your marriage problems? Are you thinking that “separating” will lessen the impact of your needing to try things differently? Does the word “divorce” sound too frightening? Don’t bother answering that last one. I know…
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 Advice from a Woman of a Certain Age
After my divorce, I needed advice, strategies, and moral support to get through the relationship mess that I was living in. I needed to move on but felt I needed divorce advice and support to get there—someone not young but not quite old, from someone like me: a woman of a certain age. I began…
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