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I am chatting with a friend. “How do you keep up with all of these problems?” he asks. Here’s the thing. When someone you know, respect and like says something that gives you pause, you have to take the time to reflect. The funny thing? Before I initiated divorce proceedings I didn’t have problems. I…

The break-up of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is horrible news for Brangelina lovers. It is vindication for Jennifer Aniston fans. People all over the world are asking what went wrong? Is it necessary to hear all the details? Not really, there were obvious signs along the way. It is sad to see any marriage…

I wrestle with my Hazel and might I add, all 75 pounds of her. She is both excited and nervous. The trademark sound of dogs barking sifts through the air. The vet enters the room with a smile. She bends down to look at my Hazy and then asks the questions I have been dreading.…

A relationship should not involve excessive control but unfortunately many do. This type of partnership can be oppressive. A controlling spouse is not interested in a fair union. They are concerned with controlling their significant other. They do not believe that a relationship is a melding of two individuals. They believe it is seeing the…

When my youngest was little, I used to tell him a story. It went something like this… “I loved being a mommy so very much that after your brothers were born I knew I wanted more babies. I prayed and I prayed only it didn’t look like it would happen. So I said a special…

I shift through hangers in my closet. I used to have one size clothing. My weight did not fluctuate. Honestly, neither did my mood. I started gaining weight when I began losing myself. Now that’s a powerful sentence. Let me add to that. I didn’t initially gain the pounds. The first five years of marital…

I am passionate about divorce. Sounds odd, doesn’t it? An oxymoron of a sentence…so to speak I am passionate about divorce because I failed so miserably in my attempts to save my marriage. As a problem solver and a fixer, I thought I could do anything. I would make my marriage better. I would find…

I sit in my marriage counselor’s office. I tell him a woman I know once told me that she buried one husband and divorced another and divorce is worst. She had lost her first husband to cancer at a young age. She remarried and is still many years later in the middle of a contiguous…

It is difficult to identify a narcissist in the beginning of stages of attraction. Why? Because many of their narcissistic qualities can be misinterpreted. In fact, their narcissistic tendencies may initially present as positive qualities. Thus, further complicating the entire narcissistic riddle. For instance… 1. They appear to not sweat the big AND small stuff:…

I sit in a cafe in Manhattan. The day is gorgeous. I glance with envy upon those who have landed the open air tables on the sidewalk. I take in two young girls who sit oblivious to one another. They text incessantly never raising their heads. These are the relationships of today. Two young friends…
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