From a grown up child of divorce – practical guides and a place to rant
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Since I’ve organized my sidebar links, you might have noticed an interesting name to the right sitting below the ‘For ACOD’s’ heading. Don’t let the name fool you. This is the only other blog I’ve ever found that is specifically about divorce issues, written from the perspective of a grown child of divorce. Or as [...]
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It feels eerily the same as when I was ten.
Waiting for a phone call that’s not coming. Wondering what I did wrong. Thinking that maybe the last time we talked I wasn’t nice enough, didn’t seem interested enough in his life, or that maybe somehow I upset him. That internal dialogue is whispering through my [...]
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Have you ever agreed with someone on a topic only to realize later, after closer consideration that you didn’t agree at all, and you wish wish wish you could go back in time and change your answer?
Just me? Oh.
As a guest on the online radio show Coparenting Matters, one of the co-hosts Talibah asked me [...]
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I can feel it coming. Can you?
My self destruction is looming in the corner. Taunting me. Ready to take over at my slightest concession. This is what I do. It’s what I’ve done. It’s who I’ve been.
I’ll tell you a story.
There once was a girl who had her whole future laid in front of her. [...]
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I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I told you that when I saw a note from Jacquelyn Fletcher, author of the book The Career Girls Guide to Becoming a Stepmom and her blog by the same title, I was a little (okay, a lot) excited. She told me how much she related to one of my [...]
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My parents met, got married and had me. I’m alive today and living a richer life than I ever could have imagined. I’ll always be grateful to them for giving me my greatest gift – life.
My parents got divorced. And I still feel a little sad, angry and hurt by that. I sometimes wonder if [...]
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I was struck by a blog post this week. This isn’t where I was planning on going with this second installment on parental alienation syndrome (PAS), but it is completely relevant and I think it brings up some interesting issues surrounding alienation in a family post divorce.
The post is from a great blog called Single [...]
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