What you need to know about Social Security and a divorced woman. You are probably not thinking about Social Security payments when you are getting divorced and that’s a big mistake! When you actually receive your divorce decree can affect your financial future. It is estimated that one out of five women over sixty five […]

You are unhappy in your marriage but you have not decided for sure if divorce is the right thing for you. Some days you think you should try to work it out and you try to focus on his good points. You say to yourself, “He is a good provider. He loves the kids. He […]

It is strange to me how couples who are together for decades divorce after 25, 30, 40 or 50 years of marriage. On that note, Joe and Katherine Jackson are in the process of divorce after being married for sixty years. Apparently, they have been estranged for over five years and have not  lived together […]

Can you imagine what it would be like to have a wife? I’m not talking about anything sexual. I’m talking about the reality of what it would be like to have a wife in your life…a real June Cleaver. So picture this: You wake up and someone brings you coffee, brings in the morning paper […]

A stay at home mom, facing divorce, is a stay at home mom, facing divorce. Right? I think not. Adding the military component to the equation may contribute to even more devastation for the discarded wife. Proceeding through our legal system is difficult enough. Adding the government’s red tape to the nightmare, must be horrific! […]

If you are anything like I was, I had no legal agreement at the time that I became a stay at home mom, over 24 years ago. Quite the contrary, I only had stars in my eyes and love for my husband and children. I was thrilled at the prospect of being a full time […]

Please let me preface this blog by saying that I was exactly the SAHM that I describe here. This may upset some of you and for that I am sorry but I have a theory. I think that women, who become stay at home moms, share certain personality traits. As I see it, for the […]