We left Swati in Are you ready to date? at 11:30 at night about to swoop into action in online dating. You already know she was married this past New Year's Eve, so exactly how did she find her new partner? Here's Swati: Match looked like I had to do too much writing myself, and I was getting tired, so I picked eHarmony. I have to say the surveys were much longer than I … [Read more...]
Are You Ready To Date?
When I introduced Swati, who writes The Single Mothers Chronicles, I shared that she had just got married on New Year's Eve. So when Swati and I talked, it was natural that we would talk about dating and how she met her now-husband. Here's what Swati had to say about being ready to date and her early forays into dating: The funny thing is that when you get divorced, you feel … [Read more...]
Meeting your new partner through your kids
In the first post in this Buck$ome Boomer series, Buck$ome shared that although she was devastated by the end of her marriage, she's come to see that her husband was doing them both a favor asking for a divorce because she went on to meet the man who would become Mr. Buck$ome. They were married about three years after Buck$ome's divorce and have now been married for fifteen … [Read more...]
Children Are More Important Than Dating
Mardell has a son from her first abusive marriage and after that marriage ended, her son did spend time with his dad. Mardell and I didn't discuss the details, but that was also an abusive situation and escaping that situation was another factor that led to Mardell's second abusive marriage. Today, Mardell has no interest in dating, not because she distrusts men (although that … [Read more...]
No Dating After Divorce
I contacted April about sharing her story after she left a comment that she had decided that dating after her divorce was not for her. I was really interested to hear more about this because my perception is that it is fairly unusual. According to Real Relational Solutions, 97 percent of divorced people remarry with the median time between divorce and remarriage being three … [Read more...]