I would like to share a portion of an email that I recently received. This is not an uncommon situation during the divorce process. “…We have been married for 18 years. For the first fourteen years of our marriage, I couldn’t get him into a church except when our kids were baptized. Then about three […]

Many of you have written to me recently, questioning the divorce process when you have a child with special needs and in particular Autism or Aspergers. The divorce process often begins when children are young because of the stressful and time consuming demands that are placed on the mother. Too often, she has nothing left […]

Can you catch divorce like a cold or the flu?  Some new studies say that couples with divorced friends or family are more likely to get divorces themselves. Divorced women have long had a stigma and have often been shunned by their old “happily married” friends. It was assumed that it was because they were […]

I received an email from an old friend from this site. Her story is not uncommon. I have heard more and more women who are happily living apart from their husbands. The couples have two different homes, often in two different states. They file their income taxes jointly. They are covered by the same health […]

I just overheard a friend’s conversation with with one of her daughter’s in law. It broke my heart because it was the same conversation that so many women have with their children. Her ex-husband had been a bad father, never there, never cared, always non connected but since the divorce has come to the kids […]

I have received so many emails from women who have screen names like …. and I made these up…. Divorce2x or divorcedmom or exwife or divorcedandafraid and they make me feel sad. Why? It’s because it seems to me that these women have no identity in their minds other than the fact that they are […]

Hope or the lack there of seems to be one of the keys that unlocks the door that holds back our ability to be strong, happy and successful when adversity strikes. More often than not, a woman who has hope for a brighter, happier future seems more likely to work toward that end. Faith in […]

So you are heading down the path to divorce. Obviously, your life and your kids’ lives won’t be the same. In most cases, your financial means will diminish and I wonder if that is a bad thing. When the turmoil of divorce takes over our lives, we are daunted, afraid and don’t know which way […]