Why wanting to go back keeps you stuck in the pain “If Divorce Is This Hard, Maybe I Should Have Just Stayed Married”. So many people who initiate their divorces ask this question when they are a year or more down the
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I began building my products at night, after my daughter went to sleep, while working and navigating a contentious divorce. Building and creating became a creative outlet. I now use Custody Folio, the app I created, every day to keep my parenting
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Why You Feel Worse Before You Feel Better After Divorce It feels as though the third year after divorce should be easier than the first two, right? You’ve got time behind you. You’ve gotten used to the new routines. You’re supposed to
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‘I just can’t seem to make decisions anymore’. It’s a common admission from women navigating separation. Not just the big decisions, where to live, how to divide the finances, what to tell the children. Just ordinary ones. What to have for dinner.
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It’s time we stopped confusing preserving marriages with protecting families—and replaced judgment with compassion. There are few major life transitions we still expect people to endure with as much shame as divorce. When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, we rally
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Separation has a habit of producing an enormous digital archive. WhatsApp messages. Emails. Photographs. School correspondence. Appointment letters. Calendar entries. Receipts. Screenshots saved at midnight because something felt important and you were frightened you might later forget it. After several months, it
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Unless you’ve always been with your secondary school sweetheart, there was probably a time when you thought of yourself as “single.” Then you were “engaged,” then “married.” If you’re headed toward divorce, your marital status will need yet another label. At some
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Humans are attachment making animals, we form loving bonds with each other that have deep consequences for us. They shape us literally at the biological level. The hormones involved in feelings of love and happiness with each other encourage myelination in the
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Is there another way to begin? Most people assume that if a relationship ends, the first step is for each person to find their own lawyer. Sometimes that is exactly the right decision but in other situations, it may not be. For
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Katie Lowe, Partner in the JMW family team, examines how individuals can manage conflict and stress during divorce and financial remedy proceedings, with practical guidance for navigating the process calmly and confidently. Divorce is rarely just a legal process. For many
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Divorcing couples now have a plethora of options when deciding how best to deal with their financial division upon divorce. The new(ish) Non-Court Dispute Resolution (“NCDR”) rules require parties to consider, and where appropriate actively participate in, NCDR processes such as mediation.
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Divorce didn’t just break my heart. It exposed the ways I’d learned to survive when life fell apart. Not straight away. In the beginning I was just getting through the days, doing what I needed to do to survive the shock of
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