Divorce Recovery Articles

Your Real Divorce Is Free

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:00:59 +0800

The Real Divorce is Free
Before Digging into the legal divorce, let's look at your real divorce -- how you feel right now. This is about ending one life and starting another, getting a new center of balance and making it work -- spiritually, emotionally and practically.

The Curtain Rod Story

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:00:41 +0800

She spent the first day packing her personal belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases. On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things. On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining room table by candlelight, put on some soft background music and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of caviar, and a bottle of Chardonnay.

How To Control Your Way To A New Life

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:00:15 +0800

Everyone has areas or parts of their life under their control

Rethinking About Sex, It Will Be A Part Of A New Life

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:59:53 +0800

Love is a whole group of attitudes, ideas, ideals and emotions and includes sex as one part.

Everyone You Have First Contact With Today... Give Them A Gift

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:59:03 +0800

Your gift can include a complement, an acknowledgment, a smile, a handshake, a pat, an inquiry, and listening, an observation or even all of the above or many other gifts of yourself.

Bury Your Marriage, It Died

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:58:44 +0800

You are divorced....(even if you have not completed the paperwork...)
You can't fix or change what you don't acknowledge.
Your long term relationship has died.

What works at Home Depot

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:58:25 +0800

This article, the Divorce Recovery 101 site, our free courses and your author can be compared to Home Depot, your home improvement center.

The most miserable day of your life

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:57:42 +0800

All of us going thru a divorce suffer and go thru some pain in the process.

9 year old with a Visitation Problem

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:57:22 +0800

Turns out that a lady wrote asking how to handle a situation where her nine year old daughter did not want to go with her other two kids on visitation day to her fathers house with his new wife. Who was, it turns out, a former friend of her mother which all of the children already knew.

Together, Tell the Kids About the Coming Divorce at a Family Meeting

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:57:01 +0800

Most couples in the throes of parting, one or the other insists on counseling to try to put the marriage back together. Once one has decided it is over, this usually soon becomes apparent to both that this is not going to work and it is going to be a waste of time.

If You Need Help

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:56:22 +0800

Since divorce is one of the most traumatic, stressful, agonizing and difficult things that will ever happen to you and that you will ever have to handle in your entire life time, now is the time to get a little help and not try to tough it out alone.

Dad, Do you divorce the kids?

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:55:58 +0800

Face reality, you are drastically changing your relationship with your children. Randy Larson, (been there, done that)

Overcoming the fears of divorce

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:55:39 +0800

The new fears surfacing during and as a result of your divorce process become a heavy wave of fear and add much more despair to an already overloaded period in your life.

Resentments, The Big Hold Up

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:55:03 +0800

Resentment is the "number one" offender.
Have you been wronged? Life has just not been fair?
Resentment hangs up newly divorced for months, sometimes, even for years, more than just about anything else.

Surviving the Holidays After Divorce

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:54:07 +0800

Divorce. I have been there and done that, along with 19 million other adults in this country. Although it has lost some of its stigma over the years, divorce hasn't lost any of its heartache. As a divorced parent, nothing is more heart breaking than watching the impact of divorce on your children. They are usually the last to know and the most affected.

Help Handling a Loss

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:53:59 +0800

It was five years ago when I met Wylie and a day that changed my life forever.
As the weatherman had predicted, it was a cold, blustery day. The wind howled between the buildings, penetrating all layers of clothing I'd put on that morning. Chilled to the bone, I dug my gloves out of my coat pocket and slipped them on. I pulled my collar up, covering my neck and headed for the building three blocks away from my work.

Tired of Hearing - Get A Life - Move On, - And - Let Go?

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:53:44 +0800

Folks telling you this are trying to help you, but need to know you don't want to hear it, their advice is unwelcome and going nowhere with you.

Handling Kids do not want me to go out

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:53:13 +0800

This happens and you need to keep reassuring them you will never leave or abandon them.
That when you go out with adults it is not someone competing with them for your attention.
It is two different things, apples and oranges.

What do you have to complain about?

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:52:47 +0800

The following item by an anonymous author, with numbers which are only approximate, has been widely quoted for many years, and puts it all in perspective:

93 Helpful Articles by Judge Anne Kass

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:52:09 +0800

To read about all 93 Judge Anne Kass divorce articles with information and advice, which will help you better understand the legal divorce and the interwined emotional aspects, simply continue to scroll down and click on the selected divorce article in the list below.

Keep Your Married Friends

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:51:34 +0800

Before I start let me introduce myself. My name is Ian and my letter was included in issue #31 of Divorce Recovery 101

Dating before the divorce is final

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:51:09 +0800

Concerned that dating before your divorce is going to be final could be legally hazardous? Afraid it is going to see you get the short end from the court to punish you because you have been going out? No longer true supposedly, but maybe you should read this article written by a divorce judge.

Find a divorce support group or organized singles club

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:50:58 +0800

Groups come and go and what I have may be or likely will be obsolete, so first try locally by calling your library, ask for the research department and ask them to find a divorce or whatever singles group you are looking for or currently active support group in your area.

The Most Miserable Day Of Your Life

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:49:55 +0800

One of our readers wrote and suggested that it would be more personal and helpful if I ran my picture with the newsletter. We can do that with some difficulty and more work, (time) but we had given some thought about doing an html format to improve the newsletters previously, so we thought it worthwhile now to try this format at least this once, (not necessarily include the picture).

Divorce Humor With A Message

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:48:23 +0800