“My spouse left me.” As the weather gets colder and the orange and yellow leaves start to fall from the trees, I’ve been thinking a lot about a growing trend in divorce: when your spouse leaves you. The case of spouse abandonment, aka when you thought the marriage was fine…
Self-esteem is most likely nonexistent after divorce. One of the many things we struggle with as we learn to recover from divorce is learning how to rebuild our self-esteem. As a result, it’s easy to understand why this is such an issue. When your relationship ends, you may feel rejected.…
You know that feeling during divorce. Some of us know it all too well during divorce and after divorce. When one of your grown children, after spending the weekend with your ex, tells you about the “new friend” that is at your ex’s house. Or when you hear about the…
Divorce is completley unfair and can screw you over. It’s up to you to move on. Ah, if only moving on, especially after a divorce or break-up, were so easy. There are so many obstacles that hold us back when recovering from divorce, but perhaps the elephant in the room…
Do you feel bitter after your divorce? What do to stop feeling bitter when your marriage has ended. Feeling bitter after divorce is all too common. There are financial issues, co-parenting, and emotional roller-coasters to ride that can leave us feeling exhausted, wondering if we’ll ever move on and feel…
Hello, Friends! As you recover from your divorce and move on, there is one all-too-common emotion that causes you way more headaches than you need. Anger. Being ticked off. The persistent rage that will not leave you but could jeopardize your future relationships. To start off with, there is something that…
Hello Friends! Last time, we talked about how starting small is the most sustainable way to reach any type of New Year’s resolution—or to make any type of change during your divorce and recovery. If you haven’t read that blog post yet, you’ll definitely want to and you can find…
Does this BS ever happen to you? There you are, going along with your day, minding your own business and it hits you. The whiny, super-annoying feeling that tells you that no matter what you did during your marriage, it just wasn’t good enough and you should have done better.…
You know that feeling—some of us know it all too well during and after divorce. When one of your children, after spending the weekend with your ex, tells you about the “new friend” that is at the ex’s house. The “friend” that was there the whole weekend, who went out…
First off, a great big THANK YOU to everyone who shared with me in the prior email the things that you are dealing with that are making it hard to move on. For the next couple of months, we are going to explore the most common struggles that we deal…