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7 Smart Ways to Keep Cool While Co-Parenting With Your Toxic Ex
Co-parenting is rarely easy or straightforward, whether divorce has made your ex behave like a pig or they’ve always been a narcissist.
Sometimes it seems like he was created for the sole purpose of pushing all your buttons. Despite…
How Can Fathers Who Leave Help Heal Their Children?
How can fathers who leave their families heal their children down the road?
When the hustle and bustle from the divorce is over, and the kids have grown up, what remnants of his departure have stayed with them? And can they address it…
Putting An End To Divorce Shame In Children
Sitting on the couch in my office, Alicia looks pensive as she says, “I grew up feeling ashamed of my parent’s divorce and somehow believed I caused it because I wasn’t a good enough kid. Plus, my mom would often tell me that I…
10 Important Questions To Ask Yourself If You’re Thinking About Divorce
10 Important Questions To Ask Yourself If You're Thinking About Divorce…
6 Pieces of Advice Every Single Moms Needs To Hear
The first year after my divorce was chaos. After 17 years of having a great parenting partner, I was left to do it all on my own. I felt as if someone had dropped me on Mars and told me to “survive” as best I could. It didn’t help that I…
What Happens To The Family Pet In Divorce?
Pet owners often consider their dog, cat, or other animal companions an essential part of the family. Given this, the fact that custody arrangements for pets can become a contentious issue during a relationship breakdown is not…
3 Ways to Create Strong Bonds With Your Children While Co-Parenting
Co-parenting is important. Remember, you’re not the only one who has been affected by your divorce. By maintaining healthy relationships with both parents, your kids are more likely to have an easier time with the separation.
However,…
How Will You Be Legally Impacted If Your Ex Remarries?
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…
My Courage, Strength, and Confidence Was Always There!
Courage is not having the strength to go on: It’s going on when you don’t have the strength. Theodore Roosevelt
I look around my house and see the home I have created. My home is in a suburb of Los Angeles near the ocean. It is my…
A Guide For Separated Parents
Parenting teenagers can be challenging, to say the least. It’s a unique stage of life when your kids are going through hormonal and emotional changes while trying to figure out the kind of person they want to be.
Add a divorce on top…