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Divorce and the Holidays: Why it’s OK When Traditions Change
Divorce changes everything, including how we spend our favorite holidays with our kids and extended families. Especially in the first year post-split, you may worry that disruption to long-held, beloved traditions will cause further pain to your already reeling...
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Corporal Punishment for Children of Divorce
Divorcing parents: Even if you have found corporal punishment to be effective in the past, now might be a time to consider alternatives.
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Easing the Pain When a Parent Moves Out
It’s right up there with telling your children about the split — another anxiety-producing, watershed moment in your life as a divorcing parent. The day one of you moves out. Whether you’re staying or going, you’re worried about your kids. Even if you know lots of...
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How the New Tax Plan will Affect Divorcing Families
Whatever your politics, you'd have a tough time arguing that the recent tax overhaul is good for divorcing families. Rather, it adds insult to injury for folks facing the financial challenges that come with having to stretch an already tight budget to cover a second...
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8 Rules for Dealing with an Overly Emotional Ex
Here are 8 tips for learning to disengage from a harassing or overly-emotional ex spouse.
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Mistakes Every Divorcing Parent Makes
At its best, parenting is a series of educated guesses and course corrections. Parenting during divorce? It’s like trying to paint a still life in a sandstorm. You want to get it right, but you’re only human.
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Why You Should Consider Hiring A Mental Health Professional to Write Your Custody Agreement
Many separating and divorcing parents (as well as parents who have never been married) hire divorce experts from the mental health field (like me!) for help crafting their custody agreement -- the document that describes how they will make decisions and take care of...
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When Your Ex Won’t Even Try to Be Friends
We’ve been divorced almost 2 years now and my ex still won't make eye contact when he drops the kids off at my house. I always ask him how he's doing or invite him in for coffee, but he just grunts "no thanks" and heads back to his car. I don't get it- he must know...
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