It was my deepest, darkest secret – something that nourished me, tortured me, yet ultimately tore my family apart: After seven years of marriage, the birth of three kids, and weathering the emotional storm of my husband’s infidelity, I made the choice to have an affair. Now I’m not revealing this today as some kind of [...]
This Valentine’s Day season is turning out to be a tough one for many of my readers. Letters are steadily trickling in, speaking of break-ups, heart-ache, sadness, and overwhelm. Everyone is looking for reprieve – to break free of the pain, to feel their smile, at the very least, to hold onto hope. I offer up ’tips’ to some readers, suggestions on [...]
I have been through four Valentine’s Days since I got divorced. And I’ve been all over the map emotionally: sad. Indifferent. Self-pitying. Grumpy (read this from the archives!). At other times however, I was happy and excited, as I learned to cope with this season of love and romance in new and different ways. Thus [...]
Men and women are wired differently. They communicate differently, they process information differently, they cope with stress differently AND – they process feelings of grief differently, including those that stem from divorce. On the heels of last week’s video where I explored how women commonly cope with their feelings of loss after divorce, this week I’m [...]
Believe it or not, studies have shown that women and men tend to cope differently with the feelings of loss that stem from divorce. The scary thing , however, is that both may not even be aware of how they’re suppressing their grief; thus, it can linger for years after divorce, possibly even a lifetime – IF they don’t know what to [...]
I know that many of you, my readers, are new to divorce and feeling overwhelming by the Divorce Tornado, your minds swimming with questions around divorce and children, single parenting, how to date, and most importantly, how to move beyond the insanity. Thus, I wanted to let to let you know about a free, 2-day [...]
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