Divorce support for women
Over the winter break, my kids and I went to the movies together. It’s not something that happens very often these days – the movie tastes of a 19 year-old girl and a 16 year-old boy are vastly different but this time, amazingly there was one movie they could both agree on seeing – We [...]
It doesn’t matter what age you are when your marriage ends, you need to work out a plan for your financial independence after divorce. That could be quite straight-forward if you’re working full-time already earning a salary that will support yourself and your children. It’s more complicated if you’re working part-time or you’re a stay-at-home [...]
Nancy B has been divorced now for some eighteen months and her life has changed. She’s gone from working with her husband raising a child in the LA area to being a single woman in her fifties, an empty-nester looking after her elderly mother in a small town in Minnesota. Even though Nancy B is [...]
It’s stating the obvious to say that divorce changes everything but for some people everything means literally everything and it can create new opportunities. Nancy is one of those people. She and her husband had been married for twenty-one difficult years and at the time of their divorce, they worked together in his business which [...]
One of the challenges of life after divorce is watching your ex change, change in ways you’ve wanted, change for the better. Nancy B had pleaded with her husband for years to get better help for his fears and anxiety and once she’d moved out, he did. Here’s Nancy B: Once I moved out, within [...]
Even when I was a teenager, I felt that couples should not stay married for the sake of their children. I don’t really know what formed that opinion – my parents’ marriage had its ups and downs but nothing dramatic. I do remember a schoolfriend whose parents got divorced – I was never privy to [...]
The divorce rate among people aged 50 and older has doubled in the past twenty years* and attorney Janice Green says these people face a different set of challenges than younger divorcees. There’s an obvious probability that marital assets are greater, and quite possibility more complex. Having adult children may spare you from the child [...]
For most people, ending their marriage is hard. Traumatic. For the person who initiates it, deciding to divorce can be a lengthy process. While Nancy B seized the opportunity of her daughter being away to tell her husband their marriage was over, it wasn’t a hasty decision. Nancy B had been going to a divorce [...]
Nancy B’s whirlwind romance – just ten months from first date to marriage – didn’t give her enough time to really get to know to her husband. Had she waited a little while longer she might have seen his fears and panic attacks which really came to define how they lived their life. Here’s Nancy [...]
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