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Category: Holidays

Writing a Co-Parenting Schedule That Works (Even During the Holidays)

Divorce is one of life’s most challenging events. There are myriads of responsibilities involved such as moving, dividing property, and learning how to cope emotionally. However, one challenge that often stands out after a divorce is the state in which it leaves children. During a divorce, a child’s world may seem to them to be crumbling into pieces; life may not […]

How to Keep Divorce from Affecting Your Teen’s Graduation

Divorce brings a lot of new situations into people’s lives — especially if you have children. Hopefully, when you and your spouse divorced it was done in a civil manner and the children were not put in the middle. This is the ideal situation. However, we do not always get the ideal situation. Conflicts That […]

Eat, Pray, Get Away: 10 Reasons to Travel Solo after a Divorce

If you’re newly divorced (or even in the midst of a painful breakup), you know it can be near impossible to find emotional relief. The endless loop of thoughts, regrets, and what-ifs can play themselves over in your head like a monotonous laugh track, and the cruel joke is on you. But there are ways […]

Love Stinks! True Stories of Love, Heartbreak, and Lessons Learned

You love her But she loves him And he loves somebody else You just can’t win And so it goes Till the day you die This thing they call love It’s gonna make you cry —“Love Stinks,” by the J. Geils Band Does Valentine’s Day have you feeling less than romantic? If you’re new to […]

[Don’t] Be My Valentine

Why It’s Not So Bad to Be Single “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” —Paul Tillich Loneliness and solitude. These are two words that basically mean the same thing, but can be viewed as opposite in meaning. Perhaps it’s the glass-half-empty or half-full mentality. So, as […]