How to Set Boundaries in a New Relationship After Divorce
If your marriage taught you to keep the peace by giving yourself away, boundaries can feel like a foreign language. You may have spent years absorbing,...
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Dating and New Beginnings
Red Flags to Watch for When Dating After Divorce
After a divorce, your radar for red flags can go one of two ways. Sometimes it is too sensitive, flinching at anything that reminds you of your ex. Other...
Choosing a Full Single Life After Divorce
Somewhere along the way, we absorbed the idea that a woman alone is a woman waiting. Waiting for the next partner, the next chapter, the real life that...
How to Design Your Life Five Years After Divorce
Right after a divorce, five years feels like a foreign country you cannot picture. But that distance is a gift, because it is far enough away that you get to...
How to Feel Confident in Your Body Again After Divorce
Divorce has a way of landing in the body. You may catch your reflection and barely recognize the woman looking back, or feel that your body belongs to a...
How to Talk About Your Divorce on a Date
Sooner or later, it comes up. The person across the table asks the simple question, so what happened with your marriage, and suddenly you are holding years...
How to Avoid the Rebound Relationship After Divorce
The rebound relationship rarely announces itself. It does not arrive with a warning label. It arrives as relief, as flattery, as the first person in a long...
How to Date Again After a Long Marriage
If your marriage lasted a decade or two or three, the dating world you left is not the one you are walking back into. The apps did not exist, or barely did....
Dating From Wholeness, Not From a Hole
There is a single idea that changes everything about dating after divorce, and it fits in one line. Date from wholeness, not from a hole. A hole is the empty...