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Telling Your Young Children
How to tell your kids about your separation or divorce so their feelings of uncertainty, guilt, and rejection are minimized, and they're reassured that your love for them hasn't changed.
Counseling for Closure
Deconstruct your failed marriage with a qualified psychologist or licensed social worker. Opening lines of communication, gain perspective on what happened, and learn how to avoid making the same mistakes the next time.
What to Take When You Go - Personal Possessions
Find lists and tips about what personal possessions to pack when you leave the marital home at the beginning of your separation. Contains a personal items checklist.
What to Take When You Go - Business Records
When you prepare to separate, this list will help you remember to take the necessary records, files and computer data that you'll need to start your new life. Offers useful checklists.
Practical Preparations Before You File for Divorce
This article will help you plan your separation or divorce so that you can take care of your physical, spiritual, financial, and other practical needs. Helpful organizational tool with an itemized list of to-dos.
Feelings of Isolation
The transitions of separation and divorce can be very lonely times. When you feel isolated, try these suggestions for opening up to friends and family and getting the emotional support you need.
When to Get Separate Credit Cards
Are you worried about how your marriage, separation and divorce will affect your credit rating? Learn when you should get your own separate credit card account and why.
Divorce Process
Saving on Legal Fees
You may surprised at just how expensive your divorce could become. Read these top10 money saving tips for keeping your attorney's bills to a minimum.
Figuring Child Support
When working out child support expenses, there are a great many costs to consider. Check this extensive list to determine how much raising your kids will cost.
Your First Visit to the Attorney's Office
Here are some key questions you need to ask during your initial appointment at the lawyer's office. Also includes guidelines to use to check your personal comfort level with this person.
Interviewing an Attorney on the Phone
Not every lawyer is a good choice for you. Learn the right questions to ask and qualities to consider when you interview your prospective attorney.
Finding an Attorney
Searching for a trustworthy attorney? This article gives useful tips for finding a lawyer and determining if he or she is likely to be the right choice for you.
Hidden Assets
What if your soon-to-be-ex is stashing cash or assets? Find out where to hunt for your ex's assets in order to get a fair property division.
Recovery
Dealing with Your Ex: What's the Problem?
Be proactive in creating and maintaining a reasonable relationship with your ex. These insights will help you identify some potential landmines in this delicate and often volatile relationship.
Dealing With Your Ex-Spouse, How to Avoid An Argument
Although emotions run high during separation and divorce, these techniques will help you avoid stressful arguments, deflect put-downs and insults, and keep lines of communication open.
Journal Through Your Divorce
Capture some of those rambling thoughts and feelings of your divorce transition by putting them on paper. Read these tips for using a diary to aid in your divorce recovery. (A guest article written by Mary Stuart M.A.
Diffusing Your Own Anger
Feeling angry? Learn simple, effective ways to handle your anger as you work through the stages of grief.
Dealing with Shock and Guilt
This validating and reassuring article will help you understand and process the feelings of shock and guilt that so often arise in divorce.
The Divorce Grieving Process
This article explains the 5 stages of grief, helping you understand what you're feeling and what you may expect in your emotional journey toward comfortable singlehood.
Rebuilding Self Esteem
These suggestions for rebuilding your self-confidence are practical, manageable, and realistic, and will help you take positive steps to get past the inevitable feelings of failure that accompany divorce.
The Betrayal of Infidelity
Understanding and dealing with marital infidelity.
Starting Over Single
Personal Ads in Newspapers
Learn the fine art of understanding and writing personal ads for the newspaper. Includes a list of commonly used abbreviations, examples of well-written (as well as really boring) ads.
Personal Ads: Safety
Whether you're running your own ad or answering someone else's, don't ignore the potential dangers. Take these safety precautions when calling, meeting, and dating those new personal ads friends.
Personal Ads: Online
Looking for love online? Here are some useful tips about online personal ads, including links to singles' web sites, the abbreviations used in personals, and practical safety precautions.
Easy Holiday Entertaining
As a newly single person, you may feel stressed and intimidated at the thought of throwing a party. These enjoyable and money saving suggestions will start you on the road to successful solo entertaining.
Starting New Holiday Traditions
When you're starting over after divorce, the holidays can be a painful reminder of what you've left behind. Read suggestions for starting wonderful new holiday traditions with your children, family and/or friends.
30 Fun Dates (that don't involve dinner or a movie)
Learning to date again can be a real challenge for the newly single. Here are some economical, unusual, and fun dating activities you can enjoy with that promising new friend.
Fresh Start Socializing
Are you newly single and ready to socialize more? Here are some helpful suggestions for places to meet new people and develop healthy, new relationships.
The Comforts of a New Home
As a newly single, you're recreating yourself and your life, including your home. Here are practical suggestions for making your "new" home comfortable, homey, and perfectly suited to your new lifestyle.
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