Tag: newly separated

Is wanting a divorce selfish and cruel? Here is an email from a reader who is being accused of being these things because she wants a divorce:  I have been married to my husband for 5 years. 3 of those years I spent deployed away from him. We met...

"Self help and positive talk is great, but it doesn’t work if you can’t get out of bed," according to Tamsen Fadal, the New York City 4 time Emmy winning journalist, entrepreneur and author, whose 2008 marriage was featured in the New York Times ...

Jackie, I promised to love, honor and cherish him forever & I didn’t break a promise. I would do anything for my life to rewind 4 months & for this to not be happening. I don’t understand nor can I believe that this is my life now; that m...

From a reader: Jackie, neither one of us wants to get back together, but do people ever talk to their ex’s as friends? In other words, is it possible to be friends with your ex?   When I was in my thirties, living in Boston, I dated a guy fo...

It is hard to believe that it’s been two years since I launched Divorced Girl Smiling. An idea that began on the balcony of my parent’s Florida home, when my then 86 year-old dad said, “You should write about divorce,” my little divorce blog ...