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Checklist: The Emotional Stages Following Separation
When you separate from your partner you are likely to go through a range of emotional stages. Even if you initiated the separation or know it is...
Coping With Christmas Without Your Partner
There’s no doubt about it, a Christmas after separation or divorce can seem like a very lonely, depressing time. If you have kids, it can also be...
Dealing With Negative Comments After Separating
Although we’d prefer to think that everyone you come into contact with after your separation will be helpful, supportive and totally positive,...
Enlarging Your Social Circle
One thing that inevitably happens in a breakup is that you lose some friends. They become his friends and her friends. While those who stick with you form a core...
Explaining Separation to Your Child
Explaining separation to your child is never going to be an easy task. You are already going through a very emotional time and having to break it to your child will...
Family Mediation After Separation
If you and your partner are separating but cannot agree on how to sort out your debts, assets, property or child custody you may want to explore family mediation....
Finding Acceptance When Divorce Wasn't Your Choice
Divorce is never pleasant. It is a difficult experience for everyone involved and may bring with it many negative emotions as well as emotional...
Getting Support From Your Friends
After a break up you’ll find that you need your friends more than ever. They can be a source of solace and understanding, people whom you can talk to about both the...
Hosting Parties When Recently Separated
With many people finding that once the initial most painful part of their recent separation is starting to subside they are able to enjoy a new...
How to Handle Your First Meeting With Your Ex
It’s one of those moments in your life that can change how you feel about yourself. If it all goes well, you can feel empowered and positive. If...
Looking to the Future After a Break-Up
Separation and divorce are traumatic times, and it can be difficult to see a light at the end of the tunnel when you’re in your darkest times....
Parenting Alone
For parents, separation and divorce can be an extremely difficult time. One of them - usually but not always the woman - becomes a single parent, primarily...
Relationships With Your Ex-Partner's Family
You might think that when you split with a partner, you have to cut yourself off completely from his or her friends and family. But why does that...
Relying on Your Family for Support Following a Separation
When a break up happens, we turn to our friends, but we also instinctively turn to our families. It’s a natural reaction to look to family. We...
The Impact of Separation on Your Mental Health
While there is no conclusive evidence that separation has a damaging or lasting effect on your mental health, many experts agree that there is...
The Impact of Separation on Your Teenage Children
Being a teenager is hard enough without having to deal with your parents’ separation, but that is not enough reason not to go ahead with the...
Tips for Avoiding Difficult Questions About Your Break Up
It’s hard enough dealing with a break up without having to handle difficult comments from people you’d rather not deal with.
Rather than...
