You can’t make me!

You can’t make me get upset, be sad, get angry, feel badly, be hurt, or anything else.  You can’t make me do something if I don’t choose to do it.  You can’t make me say something I’ll regret.  You can’t make me behave poorly, act out, fly off the handle, or storm off.  You can’t [...]

Happiness and Your Health

Have you ever wondered how your level of happiness–or lack thereof–affects your health? Are there any direct correlations between how happy you are and how healthy you are? Over the years, I have read many times how stress can greatly affect your health. The more stressed you are, the more physical side effects you have. With that [...]

Avoid This Mistake In Divorce Proceedings – The Abuse Of Orders of Protection

Orders of Protection are critical to the safety of many. Some people claim that they are simply pieces of paper that mean nothing. Detractors point to horrible stories where people are abused or murdered despite having an order in place. I disagree–although we only hear of the tragic endings, orders of protection carry an authority [...]

Cohabitation Agreements More Important Than Ever

Many couples today decline marriage but what happens when financially lopsided couples who decline the protections of marriage, break up? Wealthy individuals or those who anticipate large inheritances may want to protect their assets. Likewise, those who enter into a relationship and sacrifice time and effort in supporting it in non-financial ways will want to [...]

Parallel Parenting:Control What You Can Control

  As mothers we find it hard to let our children leave our home bound for a place where the welfare, rules, and lifestyles are questionable–if not completely opposite of how we would have it in our homes. When it is a friend’s house, we can easily control the time our child is allowed there [...]

My Divorce Journal – Don’t You Think You’re Being Dramatic?

Last week I felt like I was driving myself crazy with questions, imaginings and intuition. This week I’m being questioned about whether I’m being too dramatic. Then – 2/3/2004 “The other morning I was so upset because ‘Carl’ had been moping around talking about ‘no closeness’ and ‘Erin’ (my daughter) started to pick up on [...]

Make Up Your Mind: Take It or Leave It

When we come upon circumstances in our lives that we don’t find pleasing, there are several possible responses.  One is to complain about it (and this seems to be the most common response), a second is to accept the situation ‘as is’, and the third is to leave (to remove yourself from the situation altogether). [...]

Delicious Taffy Apple Pizza Recipe

When I first got together with my husband one of the things we struggled with the most with combining our families was eating habits and tastes. With that, you would think that I am referring to issues such as his kids liked veggies and mine didn’t or my kids ate red meat and his only [...]

Wrestling with Words

One of the most unexpected things about being divorced is how clumsy my tongue has become. I find certain words or phrases trip me up; words like “ex” or “divorced.” A friend of mine says he keeps stumbling over pronouns; struggling with me instead of we and mine instead of ours. At one time, my [...]

Divine Divorce

I am always struck by how often celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston, Uma Thurman and Michelle Williams credit yoga as helping them through painful divorces and break-ups. Divorce, even at its most amicable, can cause an enormous amount of stress, anger, worry, confusion, and resentment–and these are just a few of the negative feelings that [...]

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