Posted by Delaine - November 16, 2011 - Single Moms
Ohhhhh the irony. Over the past few years since divorcing I’ve dug deep and worked hard to rediscover my passion and ’fire.’ And I have said countless times, both to my myself and others, that “sometimes playing with fire doesn’t burn us, it awakens us.” A nice play on a metaphor I’d always thought… But this […]
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Posted by Delaine - September 7, 2011 - Dating & Sex, Fears & Challenges, Longing...and Learning, Relationships
At various times since I got divorced, I’ve felt that life would be a heck of a lot better if I had another partner to share it with. Especially when I was going through ‘dark phases’ – God, how I yearned to have a man to protect,comfort, and love me… But four years later, I fully believe that when […]
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Posted by Delaine - May 9, 2011 - Blended & Changing Families, Relationships
Summer will soon be here and some of you who have new boyfriends/spouses may be wondering what to do about vacation time: what works best for the kids? What’s ‘too long’, where should expectations lie, and most importantly, how can you make create a positive and memorable experience for everyone? Blended family expert Shirley Cress […]
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Posted by Delaine - April 9, 2011 - Co-Parenting, Parenting, Single Dads, Single Moms
It happened last weekend. My eight-year-old son asked if he could bike over to his friend’s place two blocks away. Right away I said no. What if they got hit by a car? What if some predator chased them down the residential streets? I wanted him within eye/ear sight. Just in case. But when I opened […]
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Posted by Delaine - February 22, 2011 - Dating & Sex, Internet Dating
Have you ever shown your online dating profile to a friend? Get any solid feedback? Cause the truth is, writing a successful online dating profile can be a lot harder than one suspects. Worse still, you can unknowingly be turning off the opposite sex! Take my client Nancy as an example. Late thirties, divorced with […]
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Posted by Delaine - January 22, 2011 - Healing, On being alone, Support & Girlfriends
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 […]
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Posted by Delaine - January 4, 2011 - Relationships, Sex
Submitted by Dr. Stephanie Buehler. If you listen to the media, you’d think that committed couples have the worst time having great sex. But it just isn’t true – not for every couple. Some couples understand how passionate sex happens. Read on to discover just some of the secrets they can teach you about great […]
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Posted by Delaine - December 29, 2010 - Abuse, Surviving
According to security expert Gavin de Becker, who was a recent guest on Oprah, six women die every day in the United States by the hands of their spouse or boyfriend. When is an abused woman at her greatest risk? When she attempts to leave him. And Becker wants women to know that a FREE […]
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