This Father's Day, we're celebrating single and divorced dads. Whether you have full custody or time with the kids every other weekend, the lessons you're imparting by being present are incredibly valuable.Below, grown children of divorce share the most important lessons their dads taught them about love, relationships, heartbreak or forging a life of their own.Love can take on many forms. "My father taught me that true love, even after the end... [...]
Divorce is a painful experience regardless of who initiates it, but it hurts that much more when you're the spouse who's left.Below, divorcés and experts offer their best advice on coping when you're blindsided by divorce.1. Find A More Fulfilling Life."I want a divorce." With one short declarative sentence, life as you knew it was upturned. You may be on uncertain footing at the moment, but life will absolutely go on sans-spouse -- take it... [...]
The day ends as it began: in a cold silence, a lingering sigh breaking the air.I contemplate reaching out, his warm body tense in the dark. But my mind flits over the million and a half slights of the day -- dirty laundry left on the floor, words muttered under our breaths, resentment simmering -- and my heart hardens.Carefully, I turn on my side, the space between us widening.Every day I tell myself that it's silly, there's nothing wrong.... [...]
When navigating the minefield of divorce, everything you’ve worked for and everything you care about is up for grabs: your income, your home, custody of your children (if you have them), your sense of security and even your very identity. More hotly contested and drawn out divorce proceedings result in higher costs and greater emotional wreckage.For a while, mediation was considered the great new panacea, a supposedly more civilized route to... [...]
As I've gotten older, I've come to realize there is a lot that I don't know. One thing I do know is that you don't know until you know.
It's likely that I have said the wrong thing to a friend who has lost a parent or spouse. I don't know that, I haven't lived it. How I went about helping a friend whose child is struggling may have been entirely unhelpful. I don't know their struggle, I haven't lived it. The dinner I sent and the offer to... [...]
