In a previous blog post How to Tell Your Children About Your Divorce, I discussed how best to inform your children about your divorce as well as methods to minimize trauma for them. In this post, I’ll go into more detail as well as discuss what the research shows about how children respond to divorce based on your child’s age. I will also provide some co-parenting tips. Please keep [...]
When someone finds out they are about to get a divorce, or the topic is on the table for discussion, oftentimes the first thing they do is have a consultation with an attorney. While consulting with an attorney makes sense, it isn’t always the best first step. Divorce is one of life’s most difficult transitions. It’s ranked second in difficulty only to the experience of the death of a [...]
I have noticed a disturbing trend in relationship dynamics.... “ghosting” to end a relationship. While ending a relationship in this way has been around for ages...the term is relatively new, and I feel, appropriate. Ending a relationship is never easy and rarely do both parties want the relationship to end at the same time. Though it can happen, it is the exception, not the rule. The “ghoster” in the [...]
