Sharing the Love, and the Holidays, With Your Ex by Ed Farber, Ph.D. To your child only two things about divorce are good: double birthday presents and double holidays. Parents manage the holidays after separation and divorce in many different […]
Tips for Managing Daily Life When You Have Alzheimer’s by guest author Vee Cecil If you have been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s disease, you are probably able to go about your daily routines with relative ease, save a few […]
Lessons from 11 Years of Marriage On her 11th anniversary, my friend Rebecca Geller shared the comments below on Facebook. There are clues here about how some marriages succeed, so I asked for permission to post what she shared. Rebecca […]
Love, Marriage, Money, Sex, and Power For more fun, start with the “Test Your Marital IQ” quiz in the June 21, 2015 blog post on this site. Here are the questions (without the multiple choice answers). 1. Which was the LEAST traditional […]
Facts About Gray Divorces by guest author Lisa Green Despite the headlines, most marriages last a lifetime. In fact, the overall divorce rate has been trending downward for some time now. However, one demographic has seen a steady rise in […]
How Step-Families Succeed The adjective “blended” is frequently used to describe stepfamilies. Unfortunately, this term makes the stepfamily process sound like a smooth transition, uninterrupted by conflict or disagreement. Anyone who has been a member of a stepfamily—myself included—knows […]
Independence Day? I know a lot of people who thought their divorce hearing date would be Independence Day. Some were wrong. Some were right. They were at last free to go their separate ways, with assets and debts disentangled and […]
Test Your Marital IQ 1. Which was the LEAST traditional form of marriage in history?A. MonogamyB. Polygyny C. Serial marriage D. Male breadwinner marriage E. First cousin marriage 2. What was the most important function of marriage from Paleolithic times […]
Providing Financial Information for Negotiated Divorces by guest author Larry Gaughan In Court, “discovery” is the way lawyers formally require parties to provide information and documents. In divorce cases discovery can be a wasteful and frustrating process. At times it […]
The Single Mom Movement A month before her first book was published, Jessica Rector found out she was pregnant. Having lived the life of a broadcast journalist, coach, and adventurous traveler, Jessica initially found her new identity as a single […]