Tag: after divorce

By Certified Credit Counsellor, Suzanne Cramer I recently had lunch with a friend who has filed for divorce and is struggling with what to do with their marital home. Their situation is like many today who are faced with selling the marital home after a divorce and for various reasons, market conditions, location, and lack of [...]

Written by Stylist & Image Coach Lauren Schugar. In my work as a Stylist and Image Consultant, I work with divorced women a LOT.  And the one thing that I want to stress to you as you get back in the saddle after divorce is that LOOKING your very best can help you en route to FEELING your very [...]

Written by Kathryn Michaels. I’ve been divorced for about a year.  We had no kids so it was basically a clean break, if that is even possible.  My heart was shattered into a million fragmented pieces, and a lot of those pieces are just now starting to heal. Mostly I feel like I’m in a good [...]

Do you ever wonder if divorce and/or infidelity have ‘hardened’ you?  I don’t mean ‘hardened’ as in “made you stronger.”  I mean as in, “encased you in a shell of mistrust and bitterness towards the opposite sex.” Cause that’s what happened to me; I wasn’t even conscious of it at the time.  Truth is, to this day, I still sometimes struggle with [...]

So a woman I know received a proposition this week from a man online.  We’re still trying to figure out if we think it’s indecent.  Is it different?  Yes.  Freaky?  Borderline.  Is she considering it?  Hmmmm…kind of. First I should mention, she’s met him in person already.  He apparently seemed totally normal.  He even seemed smart [...]

When I was a child, I remember hearing whispers about so-and-so’s parents getting divorced.  All I could think was ‘Oh my God, my friend’s life is over’.  For to be a child of divorce was marked with fear and shame. Fast forward to the present and how my young children perceive divorce:  every second or third friend [...]