Is Divorce Inevitable?

Submitted by: Big Little Wolf
We’ve certainly had our fill of celebrity scandals in the past year – more than enough to fill the tabloids as we cluck our tongues and shake our heads.
We’ve been dumbstruck at the sheer number of Tiger’s infidelities. We’ve been impressed by Sandra Bullock’s class act. We’re appalled at Mel [...]

Divorce Recovery: Acceptance Of What Was and What Is

Submitted By Divorce Coach Shelley Stile
The clients who come to me for help in letting go and moving on after their divorce discover that acceptance, a mandatory step in divorce recovery, comes in two stages. First we work to be in acceptance of the end of our marriage and then we move on to accept [...]

Something Like Marriage

Submitted by: Big Little Wolf
I was never married, though it was something like marriage.
Perhaps I should say that I was married, and he was not. We had documents of our joining, we had a wedding – and it was a happy one. I thought that was a good sign. I remember the way that he [...]

No Room For Hate

Submitted by: Maya
I have a male friend whose divorce appears to be inevitable.  He’s been married for about 25 years.  They just took their last of three sons off to his freshman year in college, some two-day drive away.  As he and she were driving home in the warm Virginia sunshine, she told him that [...]

My Regret About Marrying The Wrong Man

Submitted by Erica Manfred
It took me more than twenty years to figure out why I never left my husband and I’m still struggling with  regret about marrying him in the first place.    After he dumped me,  I wished many times I’d been widowed instead of left for a younger woman.   When your husband dies, there’s [...]