Learning boundaries after divorce is very important to your emotional health. Those who focus on their own emotional healing, moving past any roadblocks, find that they’re able to gain complete healing, master boundaries, and thrive after divorce. Women who assert themselves with boundaries find some notable things happen because they’re no longer consumed with trying to make other people happy….
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Forgiveness is not something you just decide you’re going to do, and immediately it happens, although many people still think that’s how it’s supposed to work. That’s why I talk about forgiveness is a process and even wrote an entire forgiveness series sharing the truth and myths associated with forgiveness. Even with much of what I said, I still hear,…
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I’ve been seeing a lot more articles around social media about how a wife can keep her husband or how to keep him happy. I don’t usually read them. Then last week, one of the best marriage bloggers I follow, shared on Twitter that the comment section on her post from September 2015 was still going strong – and it…
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I didn’t read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up but I did watch all of the Netflix series episodes and fell in love with Marie, just as so many others have. The difference for me is, 6 months before the show premiered, I had downsized from a five bedroom, 2 bathroom home (on an acre) to a 2 bed-2 bath…
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In many of the emails I receive, women reference their home as “being broken” after divorce or they may be been told that if they get a divorce their children will come from a “broken home.” This was a phrase that I wrestled with while I was married. Looking back, it kept me trapped in my marriage and fearful of…
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I rarely hear from a woman who wants a divorce. Women may know they’re in an abusive or adulterous marriage or have been abandoned, but instead of seeking a divorce, they separate and wait for their husband to make the first move. Many women just don’t want to be divorced. That’s why I write a lot about surviving an unwanted…
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Should I stay or should I go? A common question married women ask when they start to investigate a troubled marriage. Is this really abuse? How do I know the difference? I remember when I first uttered those words. I was sitting in the master bathroom with the door closed and the fan on trying to drown out that I…
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