Cutting Expenses After Divorce Without Feeling Deprived
When money gets tight after divorce, the usual advice is to cut, cut, cut. Cancel everything. Stop all the fun. Live on beans until the numbers behave. The...
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Exercise After Divorce: The Underrated Antidepressant
If someone offered you a single thing that improved your sleep, lifted your mood, steadied your appetite, cleared your head, and cost nothing, you would take...
How Long Does It Take to Heal From Divorce?
It is the question everyone quietly asks, usually while lying awake. How long is this going to hurt? You want a number. You want someone to promise you that...
Managing Overwhelm After Divorce: A Simple Triage Method
Overwhelm after divorce is rarely about one big thing. It is about everything arriving at once. The legal paperwork, the money questions, the kids, the...
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...
What Nobody Tells You About Life After Divorce
Everyone has advice about divorce. Move on. Stay strong. Time heals. What almost no one tells you is what the days actually feel like once the papers are...
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 Communicate With a Difficult Ex
You cannot control how your ex behaves. If you could, you probably would not be divorced. What you can control is the structure you put around your contact...
Helping Children Cope With Divorce at Every Age
Children do not experience divorce the way adults do, and they do not all experience it the same way as each other. A four-year-old, a nine-year-old, and a...