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How to Maintain Your Social Life After Divorce
One of the most common challenges in divorce can be the loss of one’s social network. Some friends and family are supportive, others have the best intentions (yet are unhelpful), and many seem to simply vanish from one’s life. The loss of friends and family during this transition can add to the stress already being experienced. Many find the necessity to reach out and make new friends yet find the task daunting. Here are some helpful tips on how develop new friendships during separation, divorce and beyond:
Have an Empty Nest? Here’s How to Handle it!
The summer has come to an end. There are no more lazy days by the pool, no more BBQs at the park, no more sleeping in, and most importantly no more kids around. Now, us child rearing adults are faced with the fact that our kids are at school (maybe even away at college!), leaving us with an empty house and an uncomfortable void to fill. This is what the experts call empty nest syndrome. We can choose to dwell on this fact and sulk in our sorrows, or we can move forward and learn something new. Personally, I always choose to move forward. How do we move forward one may ask? Let me share with you some helpful coping mechanisms.
“Empty Nest” Putting Me Through The Test
Ok folks it looks like the summer has come to an end. There are no more lazy days by the pool, no more BBQs at the park, no more sleeping in, and most importantly no more kids around. Now, we child-rearing adults, are faced with the fact that our kids are at school, leaving us with an empty house and an uncomfortable void to fill. Awe, this is what the experts call empty nest …
How to Stay Civil With Your Ex
As co-parenting becomes the norm for a lot of divorced couples, establishing a civil relationship with the ex-spouse becomes more and more important. It can be very difficult, especially at first, to be civil to your ex in regular interactions like picking up and dropping off children, but it is even more difficult when you are forced to spend extended amounts of time in each others company. At joint celebrations like birthdays, t-ball games and weddings, the time spent in each others company, or even just in each others vicinity, can be excruciating. Some tips to surviving the day are:
Divorce — Detox for a Toxic Marriage
Divorce is often considered to be a bad word, and many people respond to it in the same way they would a contagious disease. Divorce is so taboo that many married people would rather stay in an awful marriage than go the route of separation and divorce.