Though I don’t know my friend Tim really well, I’ve always held him in high regard. He’s smart, he’s personable and he’s also very kind: he’s rescued me numerous times when I was faced with household and car repairs! The other day, however, I got to thinking that it seemed strange that he was still single. I mean, I knew he was [...]
“Hang tough Delaine – things are going to better. You really are better without him…” Many, many times I heard these words from girlfriends when I found out my ex was cheating. I knew they were right, that at some point things HAD to get better. But while in the throes of my grief, those words felt [...]
I say without shame that over the past two years since divorcing, I’ve felt lows unlike anything I’ve ever felt before. It wasn’t just because of experiencing infidelity, though that full-body shock and heartbreak was excruciating. There were also many other kinds of ‘lows’: feelings of emptiness….restlessness… loneliness. And of course the big one: FEAR. Time and time and time again, I asked [...]
A couple of days ago was the perfect example. I returned home from custody mediation with my ex with obviously red, puffy eyes. I came inside my house and immediately went downstairs to my office – I didn’t want my preschool daughter to see my puffy face. But once in the privacy of my office, I sat [...]
I feel like I’m going crazy; pushed and pulled in a hundred different directions. I should have known today would be one of ’those days’ when at 6:30 a.m., the scream of one my boys getting hurt while wrestling launched me out of bed. Work deadlines loom, my nanny called in sick, my kids’ schedule today is more demanding than most, kripes – [...]
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