Archive for May, 2009

Starting Over With Professional Help

Filed under Coping with divorce with No Comments, May 21st, 2009 by admin

A divorce, no matter how mutual the decision to separate was, can still leave partners and people around them scarred and broken.  Time and the support friends and family provide are often the best cures for the hurt caused by a divorce; however, when things just don’t seem right or healthy anymore, maybe it’s time [...]

Total Makeover: How Divorce and Separation Can Make a New You

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They say that when a girl gets a drastic haircut, she’s just experienced a life-changing situation or just had a really bad break-up.  A few years down the road, that girl is now a woman and she’s getting her hair dyed and cut in a more drastic fashion but for reasons greater than a break-up [...]

Settling the Bills After Divorce

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When a divorce is granted, it doesn’t mean just the dissolution of marital ties with a partner, but also of the other aspects such as emotional, physical, and financial reliance on each other.  You may have reverted back to single status, but if you have kids, have been unemployed for some time, and have no [...]

Sleeping Solo: Avoiding Sex with the Ex

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People going through a divorce experience a tumult of emotions.  There is anger, hurt, hope, desperation, and a whole bunch of other feelings that may cloud the judgment of one or both when it comes to the status of a relationship or marriage.  However, one of those feelings is the sexual tension, that awkwardness that [...]

After the Divorce: Who pays the Bills?

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For some, getting a divorce is like starting all over again.  However, instead of just finding out how to pay for the bills, the question of who and what bills to pay and to not pay now crop up.  Legally, there are ways in which both parties can or should be compensated after the divorce [...]

What to Do with the House After the Divorce

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When a married couple decides to call it quits, it’s not just a matter of reverting back to singlehood.  Years, memories, and properties that used to be shared will be subject to scrutiny and to settlement.  One of the properties that need to be settled during a divorce is the family home, that house or [...]