Telling your husband you want a divorce is undoubtedly the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do, and getting it right can set the tone for your entire divorce process.Getting it wrong can add layers of toxicity that could take years to clean up.The most important thing for you to know at this juncture is that this is not a […]
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Well, isn’t this a pickle? There’s a fucking pandemic just as you’re trying to figure out whether to stay or go, or have made the decision to go, and suddenly all your plans are up in smoke and you’re not quite sure WHAT THE FUCK TO DO. Join the club, mama. My ex and I are in deep negotiations about […]
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Mother’s Day can be a big fat joke for many moms. There are usually a slew of complaints, from “I have to do all the work” to “my kids just whine and cry all day.” But what I hear over and over again in the community of divorced moms I work with is that their exes don’t do a good […]
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After our split, my ex and I had some big decisions to make, chief among them, who was going to keep the house. Rather than make a sudden move and make our son transition multiple times we decided to stay in the house together-but-separated until we could figure out the logistics of who was going to stay and who was […]
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Many marital issues can be worked through, and many of them simply can’t. If you have two people who want the marriage to work, and two people who are really willing to do the work to heal the marriage, it is possible (although not a guarantee) that you can make this work. And… it is still true that too much […]
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I just binge-watched Big Little Lies, and holy crap is it as good as everyone said it was. I was a little bit of a snot about it since I’d read the book years ago, and screen adaptations of books tend to leave a devoted reader feeling less than satisfied, but in this case, the tv series blew the book […]
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