The Seven Year Itch was a comedy made in 1955 about a man whose family went away for the summer. While they were away, he was tempted to have an affair with a beautiful neighbor who was played by Marilyn Monroe. Since then, the term “seven year itch” has become a term that is used […]

My mother used to tell me that the best gift that you can give your children is a good marriage. I didn’t really get it. I thought I was giving that gift to my kids because for a while, I really did think I had a good marriage. It never occurred to me that we […]

I often receive emails from women who are in relationships but not married. I’m not sure exactly how or why many new readers end up here if they aren’t involved in or thinking about a divorce. I do know that some of them ended up coming back because they were here when they were in […]

“I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.” ~ Confucius Many of you feel like there is no end to your problems. You feel like you take one step forward and two steps back as you go through the divorce process. You need to […]

This post is going to go in a slightly different direction. So many of you are in the divorce process and have connected with a new man who has children and you are not sure as to what your role should be. You need to understand that if the man you are seeing has kids, […]

When a woman goes through a divorce, it is very difficult to be thankful. “Thankful for what?” you are probably thinking. Divorce is after all, a time for sadness, guilt, fear, anger and self pity. So how can being thankful be realistic, let alone appropriate or helpful? Here is the reality: Studies have shown that […]

Some of you are still having a difficult time getting past your divorces. There is good reason to feel that way but at some time you will need to put it all to rest. You need to realize that divorce is like a death. Just like experiencing a death, you need to take time to […]

This is the first post I have made on this subject and I am quite surprised that no one has brought it to my attention previously. It’s about pets and divorce. Chattel is the legal term for pets. The Encarta English Dictionary defines chattel as “an item of personal property that is not freehold land […]