Learning to Trust My Gut: How Divorce Taught Mandy to Listen (Guest Post)
Hi Everyone: I am heading off on vacation so we have some guest bloggers making an appearance over the next week…you are in for an amazing piece of writing today courtesy of fellow single mom and blogger Mandy Walker. Mandy writes the blog Since My Divorce, where she shares the stories of women describing their lives [...]
Universal Truths About Divorce
Hi Everybody: I am so very honored today to be a guest blogger at my bloggy pal Mandy’s site Since My Divorce. My article, titled Universal Truths About Divorce, is featured there today – please check it out and let us know what you think! (FYI for all you single moms, single dads, and kidless divorced folks, [...]
I Feel Sad When My Dad Lies to Me
“So Mom, do you want to play this game with me? You go first with the ‘I feel…’ part.” “Okay…,” said distracted me to my eight-year-old daughter, who had been wanting to play a game. “I feel like eating ice cream.” “I feel sad when my dad lies to me.” Whoa. I stopped doing the [...]
Grumpy Single Mom on Valentine’s Day
We began Valentine’s Day arguing. Me and my little Moose, not me and J. (Actually, J. and I had a *romantic* dinner Friday night, when neither of our urchins were around at a delicious place called Les Nomades). But I digress from my tale of grumpiness. The arguing with my daughter this morning. Grrr. Happens [...]
How to Know If It’s Time to Go: A 10-Step Reality Test for Your Marriage written by married couple, Drs. Lawrence Birnbach and Beverly Hyman (Book Review)
Remember last year when some publishers/publicists/agents had contacted me asking me to do book reviews? And I had said “of course” and then I received free copies of their books? Well, I’ve been *procrastinating*…but am now giving them the attention they deserve… This book is one I wish I had in hand as I began [...]
5 Tips for Getting Out of Your Post-Divorce Rut (part 2 of 2)
As I said in my last post, being in the post-Divorce rut is no fun. You are tired, grumpy, and it’s hard to enjoy much of anything. Thankfully, there are some things you can do to help yourself get away from the sluggishness of it all. Read on… 1) Create new routines for yourself and [...]
The Post-Divorce Rut…and Getting Yourself Out! (post 1 of 2)
It’s been called the post-divorce rut, the single parent the rut, and a few other choice things…whatever you call it, one thing is for certain: it’s no fun being there. I had been waiting and waiting and waiting for sixteen long months for my divorce to end. Every single day felt endless, like I was [...]
Did She Know He Was Cheating?
You may think I am referring only to the Tiger Woods Family Saga…actually I am referring to anyone who has ever felt that ugly, clenched, rotting feeling inside of their bellies. That feeling you get when your gut knows, just knows something is up. I’ve had that feeling. And I hate to admit it, but [...]
When Your Kids Question Who You Date
I’m staring off at the pine needles from our newly purchased Christmas tree, and the moon sand from our old-ly purchased sand collection…both are all over the rug due to a crazy, crazy afternoon with my daughter…the vacuum is too tired to work today, but we had a lot of fun. My daughter is asking [...]
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