When a woman is down in the dumps due to divorce, it’s pretty hard to find a way out. Add the loss of children, financial devastation, feelings of failure and poor self worth…anyone will understand how difficult life can be. It can make a woman feel like there is no escape. It can make a […]

Some of you are questioning the possibility of recording conversations that can be used in divorce court or for custody issues. You must check the laws that pertain in your state and you should obtain legal advice before you consider anything. Basically federal law allows the recording of a phone call with the consent of […]

Mother’s Day can be so difficult for women going through divorce and after the divorce is actually over. As has been the case every year since I began this blog, the emails poured in on Mother’s Day and the days following. Because of the stories I heard in the last few days, I would like […]

Moms are often placed in a position to do what others are directing them to do during the divorce process. Sometimes it’s okay. Sometimes it’s better than okay and sometimes it’s not okay at all. The reasons are that different people with different areas of expertise offer solutions from their own perspective. Often there are […]

I just received a call from someone who had wanted to call me for quite a while. After we talked for a few minutes and she filled me in on some of the things she had been experiencing, my heart broke. Anyone who has gone through the pain of divorce doesn’t forget how it feels. […]

One of my kid’s friends asked me at dinner the other night, “So you are a woman’s divorce advocate, right?” I told him, “Well, not exactly. I don’t encourage nor do I promote divorce for women or anyone else for that matter.” He asked, “So then what is that you do with women who have […]

As most of you know, I do not advocate divorce except in the case of abuse. Marriages should be give and take and should have more hours filled with harmony than they have discord. Often, what I see on this site is that women hang on for years, hoping that things might change and their […]