Tag: divorce
Divorce at 70 Helped Dr Gladys McGarey Find Her Own Voice
Divorce can often feel like the end of the line for many people, particularly as we get older. It’s hard to imagine a life on your own after spending decades with the same person by your side; it can be lonely and difficult to picture that you will ever be happy again. However, 102-year Dr […]
The Divorce Decision: Can an Unhappy Marriage be Saved?
Deciding to divorce is one of the most difficult decisions anyone will have to make. People don’t go into a marriage expecting it to end and a divorce is something that usually comes with a whole lot of shame and trauma attached. If you’re standing on the brink of divorce, it’s natural to have misgivings, […]
How to Behave After a Divorce
So much of the advice we are given is well meaning but is frankly hollow and trite… Designed to minimise our emotional pain as if it’s invalid emotion, it’s not. This attempt to repress our emotions will actually increase the overall pain experienced and extend the recovery period, sometimes indefinitely. Get over it. Be strong. Look […]
Divorce – easier for Men or Women?
We hear a lot about the damage divorce does to women, much less about the damage that divorce does to men. So do women really feel the damage of a divorce more than their male counterparts? Historically, women earned less than male partners and took a far greater role in raising children, meaning that a […]
“Divorced – and shit at it”
You probably don’t know this, but I launched my NakedDivorce business on the back of my first book ‘NakedDivorce for women’ five years ago – Since then the business has grown and grown, and I’m delighted, and blessed to have been able to touch so many people’s lives as they wrestle with the chaos, despair […]
The perfect relationship
Brad, Angelina and the Death of the “Perfect” Relationship Ever been told “Oh my god, you guys are just SO GOOD together?” even as the doubts are starting to set in? Or had friends roll their eyes when you mention issues that are starting to bother you because hey, your relationship is great – what […]
Time heals. Really?
Do people keep telling you to give yourself time to heal? That you just need to put some distance between yourself and your trauma? Simply wait for long enough and you’ll feel much better, get over it, and move on. Well… tell them to get stuffed. Time is not a healer Time doesn’t do anything, […]
Second marriage mistakes…
Starting a Second Marriage? Don’t Assume You’ve Learned from Your Mistakes. No doubt you already know these depressing statistics: nearly half of all marriages in the US and the UK end in divorce. What you might not realise is that this number doesn’t decrease as we get older and wiser and (theoretically) better at figuring […]
Later life divorce…
Congratulations! You made it all the way through to retirement together. You survived all those early fights, the nappy duties, the teenager tantrums, the little jealousies and resentments, the financial strains, the never-ending couple conflicts, and now… Now you’ve decided enough is enough. You don’t want to grow old together, after all. You’re getting divorced. […]
Tantrum Club News: SCREAM! if You Wanna Be Calmer
See below for the latest publication about our very own, Tantrum Club! (Click to download full resolution PDF edition) tantrum spa club
