Divorce Doula » friendship http://divorcedoula.me Welcome to the After Wife Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:28:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Erase the Date: what happens to your anniversary after divorce? http://divorcedoula.me/erase-the-date/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=erase-the-date http://divorcedoula.me/erase-the-date/#comments Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:28:49 +0000 Pamela http://divorcedoula.me/?p=654 I still have the Save the Date! postcard we sent to our friends & family to announce our engagement and wedding date. It was a cheeky, goofy, blatantly non-traditional design that captured our quirky personalities.  The wedding day was pure joy followed by epic mishap. Lather, rinse, repeat. In other words, it was a perfectly […]

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]]> http://divorcedoula.me/erase-the-date/feed/ 14 Lessons learned from dating after divorce & how to be happy within and without http://divorcedoula.me/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be http://divorcedoula.me/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be/#comments Sat, 13 Jul 2013 18:51:53 +0000 Pamela http://divorcedoula.me/?p=541 Not all break ups have to be devastating. In fact, they can be perfectly mature & respectful if both parties are open & honest. Shocking, but true! Story at 11! Some backstory: I was recently in a relationship with a lovely man. We were together for more than 6 months, ran together, travelled together & […]

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]]> http://divorcedoula.me/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be/feed/ 1 Girl, please.You are NOT a single mom: when married women think they’re single parents. http://divorcedoula.me/girl-please-you-are-not-a-single-mom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=girl-please-you-are-not-a-single-mom http://divorcedoula.me/girl-please-you-are-not-a-single-mom/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:20:16 +0000 Pamela http://divorcedoula.me/?p=387 “Oh, I just can’t do it! My hubby’s away on a boys’ fishing trip this weekend and I’m a single mom. It’s just too much work.” When I hear a married woman say this, it makes me want to kick her in the baby maker. You see, I am a single mom. I am divorced. My […]

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]]> http://divorcedoula.me/girl-please-you-are-not-a-single-mom/feed/ 15 You’ve got a friend, or do you? How friendships change during your divorce http://divorcedoula.me/thank-you-for-being-a-friend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thank-you-for-being-a-friend http://divorcedoula.me/thank-you-for-being-a-friend/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:59:58 +0000 Pamela http://divorcedoula.me/?p=260 When you get divorced, you lose so much more than your spouse. Of course, many people would love to conveniently “misplace” their spouse & there were several times when I thought about leaving mine on the church steps like a box of kittens, with a “Free to Good Home” sign around his neck. But that […]

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