Today, I'd like to introduce you to my next guest, Grace Adams (@GraceAdamsLive) who writes the wonderful blog Looks Great Naked. At the time her divorce was final, Grace had been married for over nineteen years although she says six or seven of those years don't really count as being married. She has three children who are now aged twenty, eighteen and fifteen. Grace's … [Read more...]
Thinking About Divorce?
As Terry and I were wrapping up our conversation about her life after divorce, I asked her if she had any advice for someone who was thinking about or facing divorce now. Here's what she said: My first advice for anyone considering leaving their marriage or if you have an inkling things aren’t right and they’re probably going to end, try and get a job, any full-time job … [Read more...]
Terrified Of Divorce
Given that I often read or hear comments about how easy it is to get divorced or how people don't work hard enough at their marriages, I like to ask my guests how their perspective of divorce has changed. My current guest, Terry was thirty-five when her marriage ended. She had been with her husband for fifteen years. In the three years since then she's become healthy, she's … [Read more...]
A Culture of Marriage
In my last post about author Antonia Ragozzini, she shared how after two marriages and dating in-between, she realized that there wasn't anything wrong with her, she was choosing the wrong men. She needed a fresh start, she needed to start by loving herself. I asked Antonia if our culture of marriage and the way she was raised played into that. Here's what she … [Read more...]
When Your Husband Does Drugs
My current guest is Antonia Ragozzino , author of Taking Out The Trash, a fictional tale based on Antonia's journey after divorce. Antonia is thirty-nine years old now and since the age of twenty-four she's been married twice and divorced twice. Both her husbands became drug users. Here's Antonia: I had lived such a sheltered life, I had never even seen drugs before. So I was … [Read more...]