Before divorce even becomes a thought in the heads of you or your spouse and you find yourself in a consistent pattern of toxicity and resentment in your increasingly dysfunctional dynamic, you have your own thoughts about how things are going. You have had your …
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Utilizing Resilience During the Divorce Experience
Even before the word, ‘divorce,’ slips past your lips, you may have quite a bit to fight for, putting you in a defensive state of mind. You feel like you have to fight for your place in your household and in your relationship. You feel …
CONTINUE READINGDealing with the Criticism of your Divorce
In the divorce experience, you may have people in your life who do not believe in what you are doing. They will talk about how much stronger marriages were in their day and will fail to grasp the level of toxic dysfunction and unhappiness that …
CONTINUE READINGUnpacking Mother’s Day Feelings as a Divorced Dad
With Mother’s Day approaching, you, as a divorced dad, have your own feelings to unpack, regarding the holiday. Given how the divorce experience can often create tension between co-parents and how events, actions, and words can sometimes be used negatively when issues regarding child custody …
CONTINUE READINGNavigating a Fear of Commitment in Post-Divorce Relationships
When you begin the divorce process, you can sometimes feel like the commitment that you made during the act of marriage is dissolving between your fingers. If you wished to keep the commitment, you may mourn it and become angry that you will no longer …
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