Ten Practical Tips to get you through a Divorce

Facing up to the reality that your marriage is no longer working is tough enough. When you are ready to come to terms with the fact that the only way to make you happy again is to seek a divorce there are so many things to think about such as splitting property and belongings, arranging [...]

Divorcing the Negative

Children suffer when their parents engage in aggressive legal battles or when a parent tries to turn the children against their mother or father. When one parent behaves in a hurtful way, the other parent naturally seeks to retaliate. Then the first parent responds with additional abuse and the other parent feels the need to [...]

Helping a Friend Through a Divorce With Flowers

Divorce can potentially be a very messy process and is always an emotionally draining thing for anybody to have to go through. Nobody finds it in the slightest bit easy. When somebody is contemplating or actually going through a divorce, a friend is often just the thing they need. So, if you’re a friend of [...]

Divorce – Get Over It!!!!!

One of the characteristics I cannot stand in divorced people half of divorced people (half because the other half quickly get over it, ie…Dumpee vs Dumper) is the compulsive need to hold on and not move forward. I am not saying that they cling to the marriage or the ex (though some do and boy is that [...]

Be Grateful, Not Resentful

Today is the second time in a month I have had to read about a child losing their life to cancer. Over this past year, I began supporting two local families and their fight against cancer. Both families have very precious and very young children from my home town in Oregon and have been fighting for their [...]

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 [...]

Friend or Foe? How Loved Ones Can Hold Us Back During Divorce

Submitted by: Tara Eisenhard I was lucky to have the support of my friends and family when I went through my divorce.  While I’m grateful, I also recognize how those closest to us can hold us back and prevent healthy closure. Upon hearing the news of my cheating husband and pending separation, a co-worker advised, “You’ll [...]

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. [...]

How NOT to Divorce: 9 Deadly Mistakes To Avoid

Submitted by Divorce Mediator David D. Stein The great American philosopher, Yogi Berra, once said, “Be careful, you don’t want to make the wrong mistake.” Nowhere is that more true than in the area of divorce advice. Yogi also said, “90% of this game is half mental.” Also true if you are contemplating, or involved in, [...]

Are You Constantly Debating Yourself?

Submitted by: Sydney Tyler Thomas I’m a natural-born debater.  I haven’t been in a formal debate since being captain of my high school debate team and my days of debates over policy and procedure in a large corporation are long gone too.  Yet I’m in a season of my life in which I find myself [...]

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