Divorce support for women
In my last post, Suzanne (@ADivorcedMom)explained that never having lived on her own meant acquiring new skills, such as learning to cook. I had lived on my own for about ten years before I got married and I knew how to cook but there were plenty of new skills around home maintenance that I had [...]
Suzanne was still in college when she got married. That meant she went from living with her parents, to college life to living with her husband. She says that although she knew how to do lots of general things, like buying a house, there were simple things she’d never learned to do and getting divorced [...]
It’s been six years now since Mardell left her second abusive marriage and with some unexpected help, started to turn her life around. Today, she’s focused on growing her colonics business and raising her son. The transformation in her life is very visible but it goes much deeper than that. In this last post about [...]
When I asked Mardell to share some background information, she talked of going from one abusive marriage to another. She was married for the first time at forty. That marriage lasted just two years and two years after her divorce, Mardell married again, thinking she was turning her life around. That marriage rapidly declined into [...]
One of my favorite questions to ask during interviews is “what do you consider to be your most significant accomplishment since getting divorced?” Sometimes, the answer is a new skill, like learning to tow a ski-boat or starting a whole new career. Other times, it’s along the lines of “I survived divorce” or being able [...]
Even though April has been divorced for seven years now, she’s decided that she doesn’t want to date. She believes she’s single at heart and although she’s keeping the door open, she doubts that she would commit to another long-term relationship. While many of the divorced women I speak to say, they don’t see themselves [...]
I contacted April about sharing her story after she left a comment that she had decided that dating after her divorce was not for her. I was really interested to hear more about this because my perception is that it is fairly unusual. According to Real Relational Solutions, 97 percent of divorced people remarry with [...]
In my last post, April from It’s All About Balance shared how she had to choose a new life or marriage to a drug addict. Sometimes we make decisions that set in motion a chain reaction, a reaction that we often don’t see until we’re looking back. April’s decision was one of those and she [...]
While divorce can be a coming together, not just separation, it can also be very isolating while you’re going through it, especially in the period before it becomes public knowledge. During this time, your parents and siblings can be an important source of support. I asked Vivianne to talk about her family and here’s what [...]
It was just six weeks from the night Vivianne realized she had to leave her marriage to when she moved into a apartment in another state. She’d never lived on her own before having gone from her parents’ home to college to law school to marriage. She was afraid she wouldn’t be able to raise [...]
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