Posted by Delaine - July 10, 2011 - Managing Money, slideshow
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 [...]
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Posted by Delaine - April 28, 2011 - Dating & Sex, Internet Dating
Have either of the following ever happened to you on internet dating sites? 1) A man grants you special access to view his backstage profile, only for you to come face-to-face with a picture (or five) of his penis?; or 2) After chatting with a man for awhile one night, he says he wants to [...]
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Posted by Delaine - February 16, 2011 - Healing, Phases/ Stages, Understanding Men/Women
It’s happening; I’ve reached a point where I no longer wish to block it. The ice around my heart is melting…and I’mfeeling my ‘need’ for a man again. It has taken four years of being single to arrive at this place. It has required I first learn how to be happy on my own. But now I want [...]
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Posted by Delaine - January 25, 2011 - Longing...and Learning, Loving & Trusting, Relationships, Social Barriers & Change
What is true love? This is a question I bet millions of divorcing people ask themselves, myself included. After all, we all thought we had it…yet it slipped away. Ever since I was little girl this concept of true love was sold to me everywhere: the movies, TV, church, within my family. It seemed the most magical thing, the perfect [...]
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Posted by Delaine - January 13, 2011 - Healing, Phases/ Stages, Wisdom Gained
Recently I flew to my former hometown of Ottawa, Ontario to visit my family. And while there, I experienced something that I bet happens to a lot of divorced women and men: I met up for drinks with an old flame – a boyfriend I hadn’t seen in some 15 years. Meeting with him wasn’t something I’d [...]
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Posted by Delaine - January 9, 2011 - Fears & Challenges, Grief/ Anger, Healing, Infidelity, Relationships, Wisdom Gained
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 [...]
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