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How to Talk with Your Adult Children About Your Upcoming Separation or Dissolution of Marriage adult children after divorce before divorce best divorce tips children and divorce coping with divorce separation Mar 10, 2021

by Carol R. Hughes, Ph.D., LMFT, www.DivorcePeacemaking.com

The following are some tips for you as you prepare to talk with your adult children. You care about doing the best you can for your children because you are reading this article. Permit yourself not to be perfect. No one is. Remember to ke...

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Anatomy of a Divorce Case divorce attorney judge law separation spouse summons Nov 19, 2020

Guest post by Wendy Samuelson.

Just because you start a divorce action, does not necessarily mean that you will go to trial. If you settle the custody and financial issues of your case, there’s no need for a trial, and your divorce can be processed on papers alone without having to testify in court...

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A Path To Peace During Divorce divorce peace peaceful divorce separation Mar 20, 2013

By Karen McMahon


 

We have all heard that nothing is certain but death and taxes yet another certainty we have all experienced  is adversity.  None of us escape life without trials and tribulations, both large and small.  Certainly divorce falls into the category of a large trial and all that co...

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The Emotional Bomb of Divorce diffusing a bomb divorce emotional bomb judgment positive perspectives separation Sep 26, 2012

By Lisa Brick


The accumulation of pain, and the emotions of anger, fear, and self-doubt so often involved in the divorce process is totally understandable and appropriate to feel. Unless processed effectively, this emotional accumulation can be dangerous to your health and well-being as well as t...

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Perspective divorce growing learning perspective separation Sep 19, 2012

What is this very simple word all about? So, thankful for Merriam-Webster being online, I learned that it’s as simple as how a subject or its parts are mentally viewed

I had to ask myself that this weekend in the midst of a discussion about the difference between ‘partly cloudy’ and partly sunny’. ...

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Turning the Sh*t of Divorce into Compost for a New Life divorce growth positivity relationship separation taking care of yourself Aug 20, 2012

By Lisa Brick


What if the divorce process could be a crash course in discovering outdated and limiting belief systems and thought patterns about life, love, relationships, family, and money and letting them go forever?  Would your pain have less sting and more promise if you could discover what y...

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What Happened? anger divorce experience gift help resentment separation Jul 23, 2012

By Lisa Brick


What happened to that couple so enthusiastic to join their lives together?  How did it happen that there is so much anger, resentment, blame, and hurt that those aspirations are lying in tatters with all hope of redemption lost?

While it may not feel like it, arriving at this junct...

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