“You feel helpless and desperate. You feel like you’re not “good enough”. You want the magic words that will undo everything that’s been done and said and make it all whole again. And nobody can give them to you.”
Divorce
How to Leave Your Wife Without Leaving Your Children
How to end the relationship but keep the kids: advice from Limpet Girl.
7 Things Every Single Dad Needs to Know
After divorce, John McElhenney worried he might fail as a single father and wondered if he was enough for his kids. Now he’s found they’re enough for him.
Burning Down the House of Love and Hope
John McElhenney describes the final minutes of his marriage … and the epiphany that came five years later.
What My Two Marriages Taught Me About Love
John McElhenney shares wisdom learned in two rounds of marriage and divorce: falling in love and feeling loved are not the same thing.
When is Divorce Really Final?
“And then, there we are on the curb in front of his house with no children left to raise together and nothing left to work on….”
How to Rewrite the End of Your Relationship
The end of your relationship isn’t the end of your dreams or of your happiness. It just may be about discovery, renovation, and learning to let go.
Divorced With Children: Down Is the New Up
Down has become the new up, and I have become a new single dad, still committed to his kids, and in many ways, to his ex-wife as well.
Positive Divorce: Upward and Onward After Splitting Up
That my ex-wife has found new love is a wonderful thing for her, and for my kids. She deserves to be happy. And the happier she is the happier my kids are, and tangentially, the happier I am as well.
How Long Will It Hurt? Divorce Recovery, the Road Back to Happiness
By building back yourself, while you are alone, you can re-find your own priorities and joys in life.
Divorce Lessons: 8 Critical Factors in Making a Positive Split
How you handle these eight factors everyone faces during divorce will determine whether things play out as cooperative or contentious.
Refinding Your Core Happiness After Divorce
The author lost his core happiness during the closing days of his marriage and the opening days of his divorce. Here is how he found joy again.
The Secret to Happiness After Divorce: Forgiveness
John McElhenney lost almost everything in his divorce. But he’s still happy. Really happy.
Divorce: The 7-Letter Word My Kids and I Never Want to Hear Again
Twice is nice, but not when it comes to divorce. Dawn Elyse Warden shares the heartbreak of second separation.
Is the Bond in the Bedroom the Glue that Binds a Marriage?
The Whole Parent ponders whether the end of his marriage killed the sex, or the end of the sex killed his marriage.
One Man’s Rant About Divorce, Custody, and Child Support
The Off Parent goes off on his challenge of dealing with a difficult ex. While not all divorces are like this, some men will surely relate.