Are You Suffering From “Post Divorce Stress Syndrome?”

Submitted by: Lee Block POST-DIVORCE STRESS SYNDROME!!  This is the hardest part of divorce.  Figuring out the “What now?”  After all, you thought you had it all figured out, but then the child support check is always late, your ex doesn’t always take the kids on his or her weekends, and you are always left [...]

Think Before You Speak: Parental Alienation-One Woman’s View

Submitted by: Big Little Wolf Parental alienation seems to be the rallying cry these days – for those divorcing or divorced. What is it, exactly? And why should we all be concerned about it? Let me be clear. I’m not an attorney and I’m not a therapist. But I am a long-term single parent who [...]

Sitting and Waiting

Submitted by: Lee Block I sit by the window and wait.  I wait for him to bring the children home.  He is always late and never early.  I sit and I wait every single time he has visitation.  He has no regard.  Not for my time or the children’s, just his own.  It is infuriating. [...]

Ask The Divorce Coach: My Ex Is Constantly Texting Me!

Question: Dear Shelley: I’m newly divorced, three and a half months.  He has custody of our three young sons, ages 5, 4 and 3. I am working my way through this divorce, healing from past abuse issues that have come up, trying to maintain my sobriety as well as establish boundaries around our co-parenting. He [...]

Resentment: Molten Lava In One’s Bones

Submitted by Delaine Moore At three and a half years into my divorce, I no longer feel like I’m mourning my marriage.  The grief, the fear, the heartache of betrayal  - they lie behind me now, serving as sources of strength and wisdom, not pain.  But getting over my marriage is one thing, getting over my ex’s behavior during [...]

Ask The Divorce Coach: Even my Faith isn’t appeasing the pain

Question: Dear Shelley, My wife left me saying she isn’t in love with me anymore and is filing for a divorce. I came home one day and she’d moved her stuff out of the house while I was gone. She doesn’t have a new man, she just wants out. She is living with her daughter. [...]

The Emotional Stages of Divorce

My divorce caught me off guard. I had no time to plan my emotional response and being the planner I am, I found this a bit disconcerting. Actually I was highly pissed. Want to set my world a twirl? Pull the rug out from under it! I had studied Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in college. I knew [...]

Managing Red Brain Anger

Submitted by: Mark Banschick M.D. Most parents can get angry if not down right rageful, in the midst of a divorce.  Anger usually provokes more anger from the other party and damage may be done if your kids are present.  Managing a tough relationship with your ex-husband or wife requires maintaining safe boundaries, as well [...]

Ask The Divorce Coach: Move on? Let Go? Pfft. Yeah, right.

Question: Dear Shelley, “Moving on” and “letting go”.  These are the two phrases I HATE the most. My ex revealed his affair in July of ’09. I filed for divorce in August and he moved in with his girlfriend. We were married nine years and have two kids. His girlfriend just gave birth to their [...]

Ask The Divorce Coach: Where is HIS Bad Karma?

Question: Dear Shelley, I broke up with a man five months ago whom I was with for six years. Two months after we broke up he was engaged to another woman and didn’t even bother telling me. It became apparent to me that he was with this woman when we were together but I didn’t [...]

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