Married Or Not You Should Read This

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MARRIED OR NOT, YOU SHOULD READ THIS … “When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes. Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But [...]

Electronic Challenges of Divorce

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Electronic Challenges of Divorce Divorce has many, many pros and cons. I suppose where the balance tips depends on the role you play in the divorce – divorcer or divorcee.  As a divorcer, I expected a number of new and difficult challenges: finding a job after not working for three years, adjusting my lifestyle, finding [...]

What was the most painful break up you ever had?

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What was the most painful break up you ever had? Was the question I read on my group. I remember back to almost 6 years now when my own marriage ended. Standing there that Monday morning holding my divorce papers in shaking hands I wept. Crying because my marriage was finally over and that chapter [...]

Does being married really matter?

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I have been married twice now, yes I love wedding cake and the presents. But is marriage right for everyone? Are you the kind of person who can imagine spending the rest of your life with that one same person? Matt & I have been married a year in June and the day was amazing, [...]

Is Your Child Doomed for Failure? How Divorce Affects Children

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With divorce rates nearing 50% in the US, more and more children are becoming children of divorce.  Naturally everyone is curious of whether children are negatively affected by divorce.  The easy and simple answer is yes, however there is a more important question we should ask.  First question to ask is “how do children with [...]

Seven Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before You Get Divorced

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No one enters into a marriage preparing for a divorce. But sometimes the worst does happen, and you and your spouse may decide to part ways and end the relationship. Before you do, it’s important to think about things as seriously as you did before getting married. Here are seven questions you must ask yourself [...]

Dating After Divorce When You Have a Special Needs Child

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  The process of divorce is difficult for kids to handle regardless of the circumstances. However, when you have a special needs child the changes and turmoil that are common with divorce can be extraordinarily traumatic. For this reason it is important for you to take a few extra steps when you begin to date [...]

The Divorce Was Nasty, Keep the Ring or Sell it?

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  So you’re newly divorced. It’s over. Finished. Done. And while you may have thrown out everything possible that reminds you of him (including that heinous portrait of the pair of you drawn by Aunt Mildred), you’re still stuck with the engagement and wedding rings. Every time you glance at them, an innumerable amount of [...]

Can your relationship survive if one of you cheats

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Can your relationship survive if one of you cheats? So one of you has that urge to cheat, that fit guy you have fancied forever gives you that look, he is yours for the taking. Do you do it? Would you feel guilty afterwards?  

How do you deal with ex-in laws?

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I sadly no longer to speak to my ex-in laws, through no fault of my own. When I divorced my ex husband his family choose to no longer speak to me. They will even cross over the road than walk past me. This does cause it to be very uncomfortable if the children are ever with me [...]

Every child has a right to know its father

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One of biggest pet hates when it comes to parenting is those parents who have separated and the mother using the child as a weapon. They use the child to get revenge on the ex partner. In my eyes this is totally wrong and not acceptable behaviour. Some need to remember at one point that a baby has [...]