Recently, I finished reading For Better Or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered by E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly. I am such a freaking nerd about this stuff! I’m supposed to be reading some sort of juicy fiction in my spare time… but no, here I am filling my mind with literature which chronicles a 20-year study on My Favorite Topic.
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Your Opinion Please: Partners of Co-Parents
I’m somewhat fascinated by people who think negatively of their ex’s partner– or even the idea of a new partner. If Mr./Ms. Smith has such bad taste in (wo)men, what does that say about Mr./Ms. Smith’s ex-wife/husband? (am I offending anyone?) The phenomenon seems to occur more often when children are involved- I suppose because one parent feels they are being protective. Is it protective? Or damaging?
Continue readingBuddhist Divorce Workshop
In January, I attended a Christian Divorce Support class. After blogging about it, I thought I should also write about my experience at a Buddhist Divorce Workshop…
Continue readingHow To Tell The Neighbors?
The Edmonton Journal has published an article about a 61-year-old woman who announced the end of her marriage, obituary-style, in the local paper.
Continue readingI’d Rather Be Me
Great article from The Faster Times: The Elmira Gulch Chronicles, Or: How Not To Be THAT Ex-Wife. Deesha Philyaw (Co-Founder of Coparenting101.org) has written an amusing-but-true piece comparing THAT ex-wife to Elmira Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West… starting at the beginning, with a justifiable anger-inducing incident… and snowballing all the way to Oz. I could never understand THAT ex-wife… the one who is still raging years after the divorce… the mother who tells her children everything their father did wrong… the newlywed who uses her new husband like a pit bull against her ex (note: previous statement was made for […]
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