When you’re going through a divorce, hiring a divorce financial planner seems like one more expense you honestly don’t need. If you’re like most people, you probably assume that you have enough common sense to figure out your finances yourself. With your divorce expenses mounting, divorce financial planning seems like a luxury you can do […]
Gray Divorce Advice: 7 Things You Can’t Ignore In Divorce Over 50
Divorce at any age is rough. But divorce over 50 brings a special set of problems that divorce at a younger age does not. Unless you are a multi-millionaire, a divorce late in life can devastate you financially. But getting gray divorce advice (i.e. advice that is specific to your particular problems) can be challenging. […]
Is Staying in a Bad Marriage Killing You?
Staying in a bad marriage can be hell for a lot of reasons. You’re not happy. You feel like you always have to walk on eggshells. Your life is not where you want it to be. What’s worse, you’re not sure how it got to be this bad, or what you can do to change […]
9 Tips for Managing Your Fear of Divorce
Why is it that, even when you know what you should do, you don’t do it? You want to do it. You intend to do it. But at the same time, the very thought of doing the thing you know you should do (like, get a divorce) terrifies you. So you wait, turned into stone […]
Top 10 Best Divorce Blog Posts of 2016
Good divorce advice is like a shelter on high ground in a tsunami. You need it when you need it. When you don’t need it, you’re rarely paying attention to it … which is why you may have missed some of the divorce advice in my best divorce blog posts this past year. But, not […]
50 Shades of Gray Divorce
Gray divorce: “the demographic trend of an increasing divorce rate for older (“grey-haired”) couples in long-lasting marriages.” You are over 50 – maybe over 60. Presumably you are old enough to know that people “your age” are not supposed to get divorced. Yet, here you are: stuck in a marriage that feels dead and wondering […]
Tips for Surviving a Divorce After 50
How do you feel when you’ve crossed the mid-line of life and find yourself facing something you never dreamed you would face at this age: divorce? If you have been unhappy in your marriage for years, and can’t imagine facing your spouse 24/7 when you retire, you may feel strangely excited at the prospect of […]
Life After Divorce: Is it Possible to Find Love Again?
“Who? Me? Get married again? Are you crazy?!” The absolute last thing that most people want to do is jump back into another marriage after they have just gotten divorced! But once the dust has settled and their divorce is farther behind them, most people can’t help but wonder whether their life after divorce will […]