Being A Single Mom On Valentine’s Day

Even when I was a happily married mom (well, maybe not so happily at the end, but married nonetheless), Valentine’s Day was one of my least favorite holidays. It always seemed so forced and contrived. It was as if the card, candy, flowers and fancy dinner...

Divorce And Your Friends

Divorce And Your Friends Lisa Arends, author, wellness coach and math teacher, writes about friends in her Huffington Post article, “The 8 Types of Friends You Need During Divorce.” These are the friends who survived your divorce, the ones who didn’t...

Adversarial Divorce

Adversarial Divorce If you watched your own parents duke it out in the ’70s or ’80s, this is probably the first type of divorce that pops into your mind. An adversarial divorce, also known as a litigated divorce, is the stereotypical divorce often...

What Is A Codependent Marriage?

What is codependency as it relates to marriage? Well, to keep it light, if you are dying but see someone else’s life pass before your eyes, you may be codependent. In other words, codependency is when you have lost sight of your own life as a result of your...

Are You One Of Those Annoying Parents?

Is there such a thing as a proud parent who over shares info? Absolutely. According to Heather Morgan Shott in her post on Parents.com, 10 Annoying Things Every Parent Does (But Never Admits to), many of us who are parents are guilty as charged, but will never fess...