Round 3 of contemplating Divorce – Torn up inside!!
October 8, 2011 by mopal
Filed under Children & Divorce, Deciding to leave, Editor's Picks, Family&Life, Featured, Help For Single Moms, Money & Career, Single Moms
In the community Leanne left the following comment – please read and offer her your advice: Long story short: Married 6 together 10, 2 little girls (1 teen son from previous relationship), we are both in our early 30′s. Things, upon reflecting back over the years, were never really that great between us. My husband [...]
Positive Self-Care: Do You Put Your Oxygen Mask on First?
March 7, 2011 by Cathy Meyer
Filed under Coping, Editor's Picks, Health, Single Moms
Submitted by: Dawn Sinnott My children were young and in elementary school. I had joined the PTA and was involved in various social activities in order to get to know the other mothers better. I had bowled my entire life so I joined the PTA bowling league that met every Monday morning. I had gotten [...]
Conflict Resolution and Managing Family Stress
February 4, 2011 by Cathy Meyer
Filed under Children & Divorce, Editor's Picks, Family, In-laws & Extended Family, Parenting, Single Dads, Single Moms, The Ex
Submitted by: Shirley Cress Dudley The following is information about managing family stress. It’s from Debbie Lorence, University of Louisville’s Kentucky Autism Training Center, who gave a handout that I thought may help: Magical thinking and conflict resolution: I will try not to avoid conflict altogether: Instead, I will try to not let the little [...]
Top 10 Co-Parenting Tips For Divorced Parents
January 13, 2011 by Cathy Meyer
Filed under Blended & Changing Families, Children & Divorce, Editor's Picks, Parenting, Single Dads, Single Moms
Submitted by: Shirley Cress Dudley Top 10 Co-Parenting Tips For Divorced Parents 1- Keep contact to a minimum One phone call a day is excessive, several text messages a day is extremely excessive. If you have a subject related to the kids- speak briefly and clearly about your expectations. Emails are better than phone calls, [...]
Painted Pink Toenails: Today I Breathe Again!
January 10, 2011 by Cathy Meyer
Filed under Editor's Picks, Evolution, Reflections, Single Moms, Wellbeing
Submitted by: Robin Dake I painted my toenails last week. At one time, I kept red polish on my toes – bright red, happy red. I had tried other colors, but kept coming back to red. At one time, I sparkled. But somehow, in this last year, as my 18-year marriage crumbled, cleaved, then ended, [...]
Are You Suffering From “Post Divorce Stress Syndrome?”
December 28, 2010 by Cathy Meyer
Filed under Grief & Anger, Healing, Health, Single Moms
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 [...]
Post Divorce Christmas: Make Sure to Make Merry!
December 21, 2010 by Cathy Meyer
Filed under Coping, Holidays, madelinegrace, Single Moms
The holiday season is right around the corner. If you are divorced, this may be a corner you aren’t looking forward to turning. Most people happily anticipate the holiday season but for some it is a period of loneliness, isolation, depression, conflict over visitation schedules and more time thinking about an ex you don’t want [...]
Sitting and Waiting
December 17, 2010 by Cathy Meyer
Filed under Children & Divorce, Editor's Picks, Grief & Anger, Single Dads, Single Moms
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. [...]
Adversarial Divorce Attorneys: The Bunny Cage Case
November 20, 2010 by Cathy Meyer
Filed under Children & Divorce, Editor's Picks, Legal Issues, Parenting, Single Moms, Society & The Divorcee
Submitted by: Belinda Rachman I don’t’ remember when or how I found The Bunny Cage blog, but upon seeing the provocative photography of this self-styled Cindy Sherman of Wyoming, I started following Sara LeeAnn Banevedes. It was hard to believe someone so hip was living in a small town writing such interesting stories and taking [...]
When The Kids Are Away…
November 18, 2010 by Cathy Meyer
Filed under Editor's Picks, Family, Parenting, Single Moms
Submitted by Lee Block My children have been at their father’s for the past week and don’t come home until Sunday. This is unusual in itself, because he hasn’t had them for longer than a week for the past 2 years. Why am I telling you this? I am so lonely and bored! My dog [...]
