Dating

  For many people, the goal of a divorce is to permanently end their relationship with their ex. Most divorcing couples want to untangle their lives from each other as much as possible so they can move on. The problem is that even after…

  Emily Cowen, a musical artist I enjoy sings, “Even though we just met, these feelings are so beautiful, you and me were meant to be together.” And that is where “love” songs get love wrong. You’ve just met, the feelings are beautiful…

 I feel like I’ve gotten a lot of emails lately from readers who express a fear of dating after divorce. Having experienced it myself, I can say firsthand that I don’t blame them! Dating after divorce is terrifying for anyone. Fear of…

  Being vulnerable was a tremendous challenge for Jennifer, 48, when she met Rick, 49, over a decade ago. Both divorced and raising two children each, they had plenty of baggage from their first marriages and were both fearful of…

Almost every divorced man or woman I know has made a comment at one time or another about how difficult it is to meet single people in the suburbs. After all, it’s easy to picture suburbia as a multitude of residential neighborhoods…

  Sometimes I think I was one in a million. I was raised by a father who was loving, kind, wise, and a true protector. And he encouraged me to be who I actually was, not who he wanted me to be. He allowed me to fail when I needed to so…

  “For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.” Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke did not live in the age of Tinder or Bumble; nor could he likely have envisaged a time when walking down the…

  Finally, you’re ready to date after divorce and you head out into the dating world (most likely online) hoping to meet a gem. Before you get your heart set on any one man, you need to familiarize yourself with the 5 men you should…

Being single again after a long-term marriage, I have found the dating world is kinda different. The people are the same — men still say they’ll call but don’t. (Today they call it “ghosting,” like it’s a new thing.) What’s new are the…

I remember having a phone conversation with my ex; it was during our separation a few months before the divorce was final. He had left, filed for a divorce and failed to share with me his reasons. Getting information out of him about…