There have been many times since I got divorced that I questioned how smart my decision was to be a stay-at-home mom while married. Cause in leaving the workforce for seven years, I not only left a gap on my professional resume, it left a hole in my self-worth. And when I divorced, I felt so vulnerable [...]
This is a question many divorced women ask after they’ve remarried – and one that can be source of stress and fear. After all, they don’t want to wrongly steal the spotlight from the kids’ biological father, nor do they want to upset their kids. At the same time, however, it seems a slap in [...]
Written by blended family expert Shirley Cress Dudley. 1- Keep contact to a minimum. One phone call a day is excessive, several text messages a day is extremely excessive. If you have a subject related to the kids, speak briefly and clearly about your expectations. Emails are better than phone calls if your issue is [...]
Studies have shown that it’s the ongoing hostilities between divorcing parents that really emotionally damage and traumatize children. So how do you protect your children’s emotional well-being if divorce matters are in the Red Zone, the two of you aren’t speaking, and you can’t even stand being in the same building as him/her? You may ‘know’ you should smile and talk civilly and put [...]
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