From a grown up child of divorce – practical guides and a place to rant
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Confession time. I have to admit, I’m kind of disappointed in myself. When I started this blog, one of the first issues I wrote about was my lack of authenticity. How I had lost myself in an attempt to always be fulfilling the needs and expectations of others. Only showing the parts of me that [...]
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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 [...]
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I know, I know. Here we go again. This is something I’ve been trying to get off the ground for as long as this website has been around. It’s just such a big part of my vision for this space, I can’t let it go. And I want so very much for it to be [...]
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Last Sunday, my husband and I were lucky enough to have a ‘date’ day. I would have preferred a ‘date’ night, but I’m still tethered to my daughter Claire after seven o’clock, so a ‘date’ day it was. My mom and stepdad graciously offered to take the kids for the entire day, leaving my husband [...]
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I find myself dreading and avoiding that age old, over asked question this January. “What’s your New Year’s resolution?” I usually have one. In years past, I’ve answered with one of the typical and over used options like working out, losing weight, eating right and being organized. But this year I can’t even keep up [...]
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There’s something very special about Halloween for a kid. For me, Halloween has always existed in the upper echelon of holidays, along with birthdays and Christmas. And not just because of the inevitable sugar high either. The magic of Halloween lies in the dressing up. I don’t remember what I was every year of my [...]
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Divorce doesn’t hurt? Actually…it does.
by Carolyn on November 20, 2009
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 [...]
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