The other night, I had a few friends over to what I consider to be my lovely new home. It's all mine. Paid for by me. Decorated by me. Infused 100% with my style, taste and spirit. When friends walk into my new home, they all say the same thing, "Now this house is so YOU." And it is.As we laughed and talked late into the night, one of my deeply intuitive friends asked, "How are you? Are you really doing OK?""Yes.. I'm great," I replied... [...]
OK, that's it -- you can't do it anymore. You're done.
You've tried your hardest for years, but you just can't seem to make it work. You want out of your marriage.
But how do you bring up the topic of divorce to your spouse without devastating them or triggering an all-out war?
As a divorce coach, one of the most common things clients want to know is how to ask their spouse for a divorce and keep things peaceful. Well, there's no... [...]
Everyone tells me how lucky I am. Lucky my ex is a good dad. Lucky my ex and I are not psychopaths. Lucky we get along.
I'm just the luckiest woman ever! I have the best divorce ever.
It's ironic. People find me to have luck in the most unfortunate of circumstances. Why? Well see, I don't have a bad relationship with my ex. We work together, co-parent pretty effectively, and we communicate daily. He's not stalking me. I'm not stalking him.... [...]
I don't know a single person who has gone through a divorce and thought it pleasurable. Divorce is tough, ugly, acrimonious and, well, it pretty much sucks. But if you look closely enough, I'll bet you can find many great things that emerged from your divorce. I know I can. And when I think about it and remind myself of the positives, "thriving my divorce" seems a more accurate description of my experience (sort of). Hey, at least I learned to... [...]
One of my friends once said that every divorced person she knew could identify a moment in time when they knew their marriage was over; I was intrigued, checked around, and friends who'd divorced agreed; "My husband was always unmotivated, he'd lost his third job, it was many months later and he was barely looking for another one," said Josie. "So as I was driving off to work one day, saw him walk out on the front porch in his bathrobe,... [...]
