Why You Might Be Headed Down the Road to Divorce and What You Can Do About It
Ah love…First you meet each other, then you fall in love, and then if it reaches this point, you decide to get married. It’s wonderful, those first months and years of being in a serious relationship. It’s at that stage in your relationship that...
18 Quotes About Love and Relationships That Will Inspire You
Relationships are the best way to find out about others and about yourself. Relationships can have a huge impact in your life on how you thrive, stay alive, or barely manage to survive. There’s so much advice out there on how to have healthy, happy, and loving...
3 Reasons Why Your Relationship Has Lost Its Spark and What You Can Do About It
Are you bored with your relationship and your partner? Do you wish your relationship was like it used to be–like when you first met? Maybe your partner was more romantic, thoughtful, talkative, or less grumpy? There’s something so nice about being in a...
The Two Months of the Year When Most People Divorce
When do most people file for divorce? According to recent research, the two months of the year when most people divorce are March and August. Well, at least for the state of Washington. Brian Serafini and Julie Brines from the University of Washington researched the...
What’s One of the Best Ways to Get Through Divorce?
What’s one of the best ways to get through divorce? According to researchers Gabriele Prati and Luca Pietrantoni (2009), posttraumatic growth following a major life crisis like divorce is fostered by having social support. Finding a support system for yourself...
Madonna, Guy Ritchie, and Rocco–Is This Parental Alienation?
Okay, confession time. I have a vice: After a particularly long day, I like to veg out to entertainment news on my iPad. U K Daily News can have some particularly gruesome news on their site (please take off the news about ISIS on there), but if you like a lot of...
When “Bad” Things Happen to “Good” People
Today marks the forty-first anniversary of my mother’s death. I was seven years old when she suddenly passed away from a pulmonary embolism. She was due in June of that year, but the pregnancy caused her blood to clot, ultimately cutting her life short when the...
Under Construction: 3 Tips for When You’re Going Through Big Change
It’s inevitable. At some point, if you haven’t already gone through a major life change, you will. Maybe it’s when your kids grow up and move out, you get a divorce, there’s a job loss, the loss of a loved one, alienation of a child, an...