In a November 2014 piece from Psychology Today, the experience of “friend divorce” is dealt with in part. PT notes that friends may end up divorcing you because they “may feel uncomfortable taking sides, may see a new divorcee as a threat, or your divorce may make them feel uncomfortable about their own marriages.” […]
Attorneys may not be the first people you turn to for relationship advice, but you shouldn’t be surprised at just how capable they are of dispensing it. After all, many of them see what goes wrong in relationships every single day as they represent people looking to break free from their partners. MSN recently spoke […]
Michele Weiner-Davis, in her much talked-about examination of infidelity for Huffington Post, has one particular piece of advice that really leapt from the screen for me. From the piece: “When there has been infidelity, people just don’t forget about it. In fact, they don’t ever forget it. What does happen is that memories of the […]
Children of divorce have a unique set of circumstances that they have to negotiate when considering future relationships. Unlike children from nuclear families where Mom and Dad stay together, children of divorce have to live and love with the realities that life has presented them. This was the message of a recent blog that took […]
If you’ve ever felt guilty that your children had to split their time between you and your ex, we’ve got good news. A new study suggests that your fears are unfounded. According to the new research, children “suffer less stress if they spend time living with both parents,” CBS Washington reports. Researchers looked at psychosomatic […]
One of the biggest regrets that I have about how I handled my divorce — probably the ONLY regret — is that I didn’t fight for the house we shared harder. At the time of the breakup, I was too hurt and figured the memories would be much too difficult to confront and be reminded […]
Many people, once that “divorce” word enters the conversation, stop thinking with their heads and start thinking with their hearts. That’s almost always a recipe for disaster. (Probably 99.9 percent of the time, so don’t get hung up on the word “almost.”) When you put down your guard like this, you are asking for trouble. […]
Prevention recently ran an article on the phrases that most divorced people hate hearing. While the site — link here — focused on 10 things in particular, I’d like to pull out four and make special mention since these were the ones that continually cropped up from friends and family after my divorce. Let’s get […]
