No one expects to get divorced. No one walks down the aisle thinking, “One day, I’m going to divorce this man.” No, you’re dreaming about growing old together, having grandchildren together, being buried next to each other. So when you realize your marriage might be...
This month, we’ve been talking about all of the different types of abuse in marriage. And we’ve talked about how important it is for you to remove yourself from an abusive relationship and create a new, safe, loving, healthy life, for your own sake and for the sake of...
When you are in an abusive marriage, you are only a shell of a person. On the outside, you may look normal, even happy. That is the shell that you are showing the outside world. But on the inside? Well, that’s another story. You’re broken. You’re beaten down. Your...
No one likes to talk about abuse in their own marriage. That’s why there’s so much of it. We hide it. We deny it. We make excuses for it. We cover it up. Then there comes a day when you realize that things are never going to get...
No one goes into a marriage expecting to get divorced. No, you’re thinking about your future together, kids, grandkids, growing old…you’re certainly not planning to go back in time to when you were single. But about half of all marriages in the U.S. end in divorce. So...
Back when I was in the deepest, darkest hours of my divorce (wait, make that years), I could only see what was right in front of me. Sadness. Fear. Loneliness. Isolation. Anxiety. Depression. And since that was all I could see, that was also all I thought about. I was...
