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Is It Easier To Deal With Divorce When You Made The Choice To Leave?

March 8, 2012 No Comments

I’m divorced, as is 50 percent of the population. While going through my divorce, I read voraciously and swapped stories with other divorcees in an attempt to find insight into the pain that I couldn’t make sense of. Post-divorce, some women were brokenhearted, some celebrated their newfound freedom and some were happily remarried. But in ...

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Couples Therapy isn’t Always an Option

March 8, 2012 No Comments

Today, I’m happy to introduce you to personal coach, Michelle Leath who also blogs at Unlock Your Possibility. Michelle and her husband were married for sixteen years, together for twenty-one and had two children who were aged twelve and fourteen when the marriage ended. Michelle said they definitely had some communication issues even before they ...

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Dating a Friend’s Ex: Is it Ever Okay?

March 8, 2012 No Comments

It started our innocently enough. Brian had been divorced for three years when he filled out the cumbersome eHarmony profile. Looking through all the profiles on other dating sites was daunting, so he decided to let a computer do the mate selection for him. He had a good feeling about this, and as luck would ...

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Handles & Hashtags: Taking Names and Giving Them Back

February 19, 2012 1 Comment

When Ed Housewright wrote his piece on reclaiming his last name from his ex-wife titled, Can I Please Have My Name Back?, I actually spoke out loud to the computer, saying, yes, yes, you can.  But then I stopped; who would I give my name back to?  And which name? I’ve never really had my ...

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Divorce no excuse for bad behaviour

February 19, 2012 No Comments

WHO says British etiquette experts Debrett’s don’t move with the times? The chroniclers of the cream of British society since the late  1700s have put together a book on how to behave during a divorce. The idea is to assist emotionally distraught couples in maintaining decorum in the midst of their battles over custody and ...

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Talking to Your Children About Dating

February 19, 2012 No Comments

When I’m posting someone’s series I don’t usually like to interrupt the flow with posts on other topics or guest posts. The disadvantage with this is that sometimes there are posts I have to hold off writing and right now I have several dating advice related posts I want to share. So first up:   ...

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Divorce: A Kick in the Pants

January 23, 2012 1 Comment

I often hear/read single moms talking about how their ex is much more actively involved in parenting after the divorce. Sometimes that’s associated with resentment and sometimes with wishing that he’d always been that way. Divorce is a wake up call and it isn’t just dads who transform. IronSpineSally calls her divorce a kick in ...

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Consider Some Forgiveness With Your New Year Cleanse

January 23, 2012 9 Comments

Many people I’m acquainted with were doing a fabulous job cleaning up and putting their house in order in anticipation of the New Year. In the homes I visited, both literally and through tales that were told, grand-scale transformation was commencing. Gifts were put away, luggage was unpacked, trees and menorahs were taken down, and ...

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Divorce: A Rite of Passage

January 23, 2012 1 Comment

Divorce seems to be one of those topics about which everyone has an opinion: some of it may come from a religious belief, some of it may come from an ethical perspective, some of it may come from the media and entertainment and some of it may come from personal experience or an absence of ...

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