Designing Your Way Out of a Breakup

Breaking up is hard to do. There's so much left behind; both physical and emotional. I started a business called Never Liked It Anyway...

An Open Letter to My Ex-Wife: I Thought You Were the Most Beautiful Thing in the World

I never imagined you and I, out of all the people in this world, would go through something so devastating as we did. Throughout the yea...

Sometimes You Are Not a Victim - You Are an Asshole

I have, for a lot of my life, suffered from a victim complex -- you know the one, where everything in your life is someone else's fa...

The 6 New Year's Resolutions This Divorce Attorney is Making for 2015

2014 has been marked for me by an endeavor which I must admit has been far more fun than the actual practice of family law, blogging on Hu...

10 Reasons the Gym Denied My New Year's Resolution Application

I had good intentions for my New Year's resolution. Really good intentions. As a single mom, four years post-divorce, it's time to...

When Co-Parenting Is a Necessary Evil

Your period is late . Your friend-with-benefits or special-handshake relationship wound up staying a night or two, as Todd Rundgren sang in ...

My 5-Year-Old Wants to Be a Single Mother

My 5-year-old daughter and I were discussing weddings and dance parties. I was feeling good about my open-minded parenting skills when I t...

Happy Birthday to 43-Year-Old Me

My son yanked at my arm as he does in the early hours of every morning. I slid lazily out of bed, dragged myself to the kitchen to set the...

The Most Important New Year's Resolution You'll Ever Make (as a Divorced Parent)

As a therapist and divorce consultant, I've worked with hundreds of children from divorcing families. Last year at this time I posted ...

Battling the Holiday Hype With a Broken Heart

They say breaking up is hard to do. Imagine how hard it is during the holidays. Sadly it seems breakups are all the rage around the time...

I Found Heartbreak in a Tinder Place, Too

Christmas is the worst time to have a breakup. I was excited about finally having a boyfriend for the holidays -- someone to kiss under th...

7 Huge Mistakes I Made As A Wife (I'm The Ex-Wife Now)

By Sloane Bradshaw At first it was easy for me to point every single finger and toe at my husband for obliterating our 10-year marriage. H...

Anatomy of a 16-Year Wedding Anniversary Present (or What Not to Give Your Wife)

Sugar Daddy (aka the husband who is currently sleeping on the couch): "I don't want to talk about it -- I'm sorry I made a mi...

5 Things I (Foolishly) Gave Up For A Man

By Tara Eisenhard for DivorcedMoms.com It's no secret, partnerships take a lot of work, and good ones require even more effort. We al...

5 Lessons From A Twenty-Something Divorcée

By Jillian Kramer I remember the conversation well. I'd been separated from my ex-husband for about six months when a friend called wi...

5 Ways to Beat the Holiday Blues

If all the holiday displays of red and green have left you feeling bluer than blue, take heart because you are not alone. While no forma...

How an Elaborate (Ok, Not Really) Hoax Brought Sanity to our Blended Family Holidays

Christmas with a blended family of six kids was pretty chaotic. First, the kids got gifts from a vast empire of grandparents and step-gran...

Re-Defining Family At Holiday Time

My friend and fellow seeker/ Huffington Post blogger Marina Illich and I like to untangle the hard stuff. We call it Five Minute Manna. Thi...