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Children’s Story Time for coParents: “I Have a Stepdad”

Children’s books author Colleen LeMaire writes stories for children of divorce. coParents read the books to their children. to help them understand what happens when Mom and Dad divorce. This story is about having a stepdad. I Have a Stepdad Once upon a time, my Mommy met a handsome man. She fell in love with him, and he […]

Planning for Divorce’s Inevitable Obstacles

Consider that divorce is a wild race, that anything can and will happen. Blisters. Thunderstorms. Nausea. Wardrobe malfunctions. ANYTHING! My reasons for leaving my marriage were simple: I had married an abusive man. By the end of our marriage, he had been arrested for domestic violence, and had an Order of Protection served for a […]

The Importance of Parenting Plan Maintenance

Every system needs to receive a steady supply of energy or it will quit working. A GPS is the same. Whether it is from a battery or power from the car, the GPS requires energy to operate. Your family is no different. It is also a system that needs power to keep working. In this […]

Decreasing Your Own Anxiety – For Your Child’s Sake

Feelings are contagious and this includes anxiety passed from the coParent to the child. It is important for parents to learn to calm their own emotions, for the sake of the child. If a child is too anxious, they may not wish to attend school. Recent research on “school refusal” shows that it is a […]

Tips to Keep Your Leverage During Negotiation

Here are some ways you can lose leverage in a negotiation, if you are not mindful: Negotiating money separately from the rest of the terms. You’re at a distinct disadvantage when you negotiate any part of a deal in a vacuum. It’s vital to maintain the integrity of the whole exchange. For example, how can you […]

Assessing Your Financial Picture After Divorce

The pressing decision you face regarding your house during a divorce also presents a unique opportunity to assess your entire financial picture.
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Meeting Emotional Needs – For Your Child and Yourself

Why don’t parents meet their children’s emotional needs? First of all, even the most well-intentioned parents often fail to meet their children’s emotional needs, and, in most cases, emotional wounds have nothing to do with parental love. Oftentimes, childhood emotional wounds are by-products of parenting style or our parent’s unhealed wounds or family issues, such as […]

Children’s Story Time for coParents: “I Have Two Homes”

Children’s books author Colleen LeMaire writes stories for children of divorce. coParents read the books to their children. to help them understand what happens when Mom and Dad divorce. This story is about living in two homes. Once upon a time, I was born. I was the cutest, cuddliest baby the doctor had ever seen! […]

Can You Change Spousal Support?

Spousal support, also called alimony, are payments made from one spouse to another after divorce. Shawn Leamon, MBA, CDFA offers insight into the subject of spousal support. The overall purpose of spousal support is to lessen the burden on the spouse who earns lower wages than his or her former spouse. An amount of money is […]

6 Wants of the coParent’s Child After Divorce

This a great go-to list for understanding of what children need from coParents, following divorce. What I need from my mom and dad: A child’s list of wants • I need both of you to stay involved in my life. Please write letters, make phone calls, and ask me lots of questions. When you don’t […]

Our Children’s Right To Choose

In addition to anxiety and constant conflict, add to this Culture of Blame a child’s right to choose. More than ever before in history, children get to decide: what they wear, where they eat, how they spend their time – and with whom they spend their time. Society has changed. You can’t blame this on one […]

Our Family – Redefined With coParents

Divorce is not something that happens once in a courtroom. It is a lifetime change for you and your family. The family looks different now. Old patterns have to be changed. New patterns have to be tried out and then kept or thrown away. In some areas, there is a mandatory waiting period before a […]

The Importance of Trusting Your Gut

Many people use the terms “instinct” and “intuition” interchangeably. Others think of instinct as something we’re born with — a physical trait — and intuition as something more cerebral that develops with experience. The Latin root of intuition roughly translates as to look inside, or to contemplate. The Latin root of instinct is to incite […]

The Development of Holding Tight, Letting Go

Holding Tight, Letting Go is about taking off the training wheels. It’s about the necessary and natural tension that defines growing up and growing apart. It’s about the constantly shifting pressure between separation and reunion. Being together and being apart. “Me” versus “us.” It’s about the back-and-forth two-step that describes every parent-child relationship everywhere through […]

How to Handle Regret After Divorce

Emotions can lead us to do strange things, particularly when circumstances seem especially dire. It may feel as if your actions are beyond your control at these times, and in some ways they are. Most people have heard of the fight, flight, or freeze response. This reaction is biologically triggered in both animals and humans […]