How to Reclaim Your Home and Space After Divorce
Your home remembers the marriage. That is part of what makes the after so hard. The chair he always sat in. The side of the closet that stands half empty...
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Rediscovering Yourself
The Loneliness of Divorce, and How to Move Through It
There is a specific loneliness that comes with divorce, and it can catch you off guard because it does not always arrive when you expect it. Sometimes it...
How to Feel Like Yourself Again After a Long Marriage
A long marriage does something to a person that a short one never can. When you have been half of a couple for a decade or two or three, the boundary between...
How to Rediscover What You Actually Enjoy After Divorce
Somebody asks what you like to do for fun, and you go blank. Not because you are boring, but because it has been years since the question had a purely...
How to Find Purpose Again After Divorce
For a long time, your days had a built in point. There was a household to run, a partnership to tend, a shared future to steer toward. Whether or not the...
When Your Friends Take Sides in a Divorce
You expected to lose a husband. You did not expect to lose friends. Yet somewhere in the middle of the divorce, invitations dried up from people you thought...
How to Make New Friends as an Adult After Divorce
Making friends was easier when you were younger. School and college handed you a fresh crowd every year, and proximity did most of the work. As an adult, and...
How to Rebuild Your Social Life After Divorce
One of the quieter losses of divorce is the social life that came bundled with the marriage. The couple friends. The standing invitations. The dinners where...
How to Rebuild Confidence and Self-Worth After Divorce
Divorce has a way of quietly rewriting the story you tell about yourself. Even when leaving was the right call, even when the marriage was hurting you, some...