Category: Separation & Divorce

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How Do You Cope With Confusion and Hurt When Your Husband Walked Out?

Coping With Confusion and Hurt When Your Husband Walks Out

Your husband walked out of your marriage – how do you cope with the confusion and hurt? Out of the blue he says he doesn’t want to be married anymore, and you’re left to pick up the pieces. I don’t have a magic want or the right words to make you feel better and help [...]

Can You Trust Your Husband?

Tips for Wives Who Don’t Trust Their Husbands

One of the questions I’m often asked: “I don’t trust my husband. Do I stay married or get a divorce?” I can’t answer that, but I can give a few general tips for wives who don’t trust their husbands and who are wondering if they should get a divorce. These tips are inspired by a reader [...]

How to Stop Feeling Guilty After Breaking Up With Someone

How to Stop Feeling Guilty After Breaking Up With Someone

You broke up with someone you can’t be in a relationship with – and you feel guiltier than hell! Here are tips on how to stop feeling guilty over a breakup… On my article about healing from an addictive relationship, a reader says she feels so guilty about breaking up with her boyfriend of four [...]

How Do You Handle Financial Debt During a Divorce?

How to Deal With Financial Debt When You Get a Divorce

If you’re getting divorced, you need to know how to deal with financial debt, keep your assets, and start rebuilding for retirement. These tips for protecting your money are for divorcing couples who want to equitably split assets and liabilities — and focus on the future. First, check out Robin Williams’ quotation about divorce: “Ah, [...]

How Do You Know if You Should Leave Him?

Considering Divorce? Signs You Should Leave Your Husband

One of the most common questions I get is, “Should I leave my husband?” These signs for women considering divorce may help you decide if you should stay married or run for the hills. Nobody can (or should) tell you if you should leave your husband. But, you can get an objective perspective from an [...]

Love is Never a Waste of Time...But Regret Is

How to Recover the Years You Wasted in a Relationship

You’ll never get back the years you “wasted” in a relationship – but you can recover things other than time! These tips on how to recover misspent years are inspired by a reader… “I feel like I’ve wasted the past three years of my life on hopes and plans for the future that are now [...]

How to Know if Your Relationship is Over – 9 Questions

How to Know if Your Relationship is Over – 9 Questions

Sometimes it’s easy to tell if a relationship should end; other times it’s confusing and unclear. These questions will help you know if your relationship is over. Read this comment from a reader – you may see your own relationship in her words: “My boyfriend and I have been together for a while, we have [...]

Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Press Charges – Secrets From Jail

Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Press Charges – Secrets From Jail

A new jailhouse research study reveals why women experiencing domestic violence don’t press charges against the men who abuse them. This is a fascinating study that reveals the abuser’s dirty, underhanded secrets for manipulating the women they abuse. “The existing belief is that victims recant [don’t press charges] because the perpetrator threatens her with more [...]

When You Can’t Stop Loving a Man Who Doesn’t Want You

When You Can’t Stop Loving a Man Who Doesn’t Want You

Painful words: I love him, but he doesn’t want me. What do you do when you can’t stop loving a man who doesn’t care? Here are a few tips for women and unrequited love… “Sometimes I fight with myself to not text him or call him,” says A. on My Husband Left Me for Another [...]

What to Do When Your Boyfriend Says He’ll Kill Himself If You Leave

What to Do When Your Boyfriend Says He’ll Kill Himself If You Leave

Here’s help for girlfriends whose boyfriends threaten to kill themselves if they leave or break off the relationship. Suicide is a terrible manipulative technique that emotionally disturbed people use to control others. Here’s what one wife says: “My husband and I have been married for five years,” says on How to Leave a Man Who [...]