I've discovered that the community of women I met and relied on during my divorce has become the foundation on which I've built my post-divorce life. These women have become the people I turn to when I’m in a pinch or looking for someone to have dinner with, especially since...
Do you see your divorce as the worst thing that’s ever happened to you? Or did it teach you lessons you needed to learn to cultivate more meaningful relationships in the future? Was it a disappointment so great you will never get over it? Or did it crack you open and...
After my divorce, taking on new tasks and challenges that I'd never attempted before proved to be scary, but also healing. Living alone after I separated meant that when there was a jar with a too-tight lid, a shelf that needed to be hung, or a creepy-crawly thing in the...
Nobody in my family had ever gotten divorced, not as far back as anyone could remember, anyway. But what initially felt like the biggest failure of my life, I came to view as an opportunity. I had a choice about how I would tell the story of my divorce. Was...
When I moved out of the home I had shared with my husband, I hadn’t worked for five years. I’d left my advertising copywriter job to care for my girls and hoped to continue to be a full-time stay-at-home mom for my daughters. Going over our finances with the mediator,...