Posts Tagged ‘life after divorce’
How to Move On and Discover Your True Self After Divorce
It’s tempting, and oh, so easy to believe that the hard work of divorce is completing the legal, financial, and practical steps you must take to officially dissolve your marriage. The black and white stuff. And Lord knows there’s a myriad of those logistical, challenges. You have to decide how you will divorce, how, or…
Read MoreHow to Survive a Nasty Divorce & Take Care of You, Too!
Every divorce is heartbreaking because it abruptly ends the dream of living happily ever after together. But a nasty divorce is doubly painful because of the ongoing onslaught of your Ex’s aggressive behavior. Aggressive behavior during (and after) a bad divorce can take many forms. Purposeful cruelty People who resort to purposeful cruelty do things…
Read MoreCoparenting Tips: 4 Ground Rules All Divorced Parents Should Live by (For Everybody’s Sake)
So that’s it. Game over. You’re all talked out, and the writing on the wall is clear. Something has to change, and you and your partner have decided divorce is the best answer. If you share children with your Ex, then before you can even think about how you’ll fumble through the world of dating…
Read MoreSelf Care after Divorce: Loving Our Bodies, Ourselves
Taking care of ourselves can be challenging on our best days. Work, children, aging parents, pets, email, the car, smartphones—all of them competing in a dizzying buzz for our attention. Yet, self care after divorce is crucial. There’s no one around to casually remind you it’s time for another teeth cleaning or that you seem…
Read MoreHow to Recover from Divorce Emotionally
You’ve heard it before, divorce can be as stressful as losing someone to death. Except death is final. The person is gone. So for those who never wanted the divorce, who continue to struggle, trying to recover from divorce emotionally, that lack of closure — still knowing your ex is around — can be more…
Read MoreHow to Parent Your CoParent (Without Him Realizing!)
You know that setting an example is always important. And you can guess, I’m not just talking about the model you demonstrate to your kids. When you separate and become coparents, it is so easy to disengage and consequently, communicate less and less with your ex. It can be such a relief! Yet, communication more…
Read More100 Must Do’s for the Newly Divorced, Independent Woman
How do you rebuild your life after divorce? Ah, a very good question, my dear Ms. Watson. So good … or so daunting … that the answer and its blinding array of what ifs and unknowns make most people shrink and stop. They never find out for themselves. But that’s not you. Because here you…
Read MoreLife 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 MoreMidlife Volunteering for Women: Listening for the Wild Things
The air felt hot and dry against my face, but the breeze felt cool and fresh. I listened to the steam of air released and watched what unfolded below. A long time ago, I flew over Kenya’s Masai Mara — in a hot air balloon. Aloft the wind currents, my new husband and I marveled…
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