May 31, 2017 | divorce, relationships, resilience, resourcefulness
Comedian Dane Cook has this amazing line about how women stay in relationships for the strangest reasons. Here’s some paraphrasing: “Lisa, we’re concerned about you. He’s a (bleep). We want you to just go.” “Karen, it’s not...
May 24, 2017 | codependency, creativity, divorce, relationships, resilience
Funny story. Just a few weeks before I moved into my first rental (alone), I ended up standing in the candle aisle at Cost Plus: World Market, weeping openly while staring at some pillar candles. No, it wasn’t the price (I had a coupon!), it was the decision. I...
May 17, 2017 | codependency, divorce, relationships
You’ve heard of Empty Nest Syndrome: the transition period that parents go through when their children, the humans that they’ve been responsible for for the last 18 years, leave home to go to college, travel the globe, get married, work at the Quickie...
May 10, 2017 | relationships, resilience, resourcefulness
As women, we are born and raised to be people pleasers. From a young age we are taught not to make waves. We avoid conflict (yep, I’m going with sweeping generalizations here – if you disagree with anything, stop reading… or don’t and be...
May 3, 2017 | divorce, relationships
I remember reading a quote from him when I was younger. I’m probably coming across as super snooty right now with my talk of philosophy. You might even imagine me wearing a plaid jacket with reinforced elbows and drinking tea from a tiny cup, pinky raised high...
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