For many people, one of the scariest things about getting divorced is having to be much more independent. For example, I have a friend who moved right from her parent's house into the home she shared with her husband for 30 years until they got divor...

Below is an email from a reader who explained that she is going through a divorce, and that the divorce was HER decision. She asked me if I could give her some advice for when a woman decides to leave. In other words, how does one deal with the immen...

As I look back on myself as a newly separated 41 year-old--feeling scared and sad and angry and hopeless and lonely,  I realize now how utterly lost I was. Those first several months going through a divorce with two young children were painful and d...

From a reader who writes,“My ex is in love with someone else now:" I have a very difficult situation. My ex is in love with someone else now. I have been loving my ex wife for 20 years and I'm only 41. We separated about 5 years ago and our divo...

When I think of Father's Day, I think of my father and always will. But there is another father who is very important on Father's Day: my ex-husband. Why is he important? Because he is my children's father. Maybe you are newly separated and this i...