Tag Archives: Divorce Etiquette

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  The reason your next marriage may fail

    It’s happens all the time and I usually see it coming before it arrives, like visualizing an accident moments before the cars collide. It now occurs with such frequency the Queen and I prepared a canned response for anyone who asks… “We want to give ya’ll something to worry about!” January will mark our [...]

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  What I’ll do differently when I get married again. Part 2 – dating, marriage, and money

  I have the blessed privilege of being a financial mentor with a local organization where I live. It is an honor I was led to undertake some time ago and has given me a great opportunity to serve others while being a great learning experience that offers me a tremendous sense of fulfillment. Almost exclusively [...]

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  She doesn’t want sex anymore and why it’s your fault

  The recent announcement by Marianne Gingrich of her former husband and 2012 presidential hopeful Newt Gringrich’s appeal to open up their 18 year marriage so he could pursue a sexual relationship with a congressional aide and now wife has unleashed a firestorm of criticism and once again brought the whole necessity of marriage back into [...]

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  I’m a single dad, not a child molester

  Let’s begin with a little story. There’s a little girl we’re going to call Brittany. Now Brittany is in the fourth grade at a school she’s been attending since kindergarten. She’s outgoing and cute, dresses odd at times, can be very funny, is a tad bookwormish, and is most definitively a Taylor Swift fan. Brittany [...]

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  The best divorce advice I never got

    Divorce is big business. In fact, it’s a $28 billion dollar per year industry with the average breakup estimated to cost $20,000. In light of that I can easily understand the axiom “it’s cheaper to keep her”. But for those who’ve been through their own the emotional costs can be incalculable. The moment a [...]

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  The ex is getting remarried. Now what?

  All the voicemail said was, “Hey it’s Jim. Give me a call when you get this I want to talk with you about something” We men are funny little creatures even when asking for advice we do it in a way that makes us look like we’re not. The urge to know-it-all goes way beyond directions [...]

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  Once a cheater, always a cheater?

  We’ve all heard the saying “a leopard can’t change its spots” which intimates that people will be who they will be and can’t or won’t change. That a person’s character or nature, much like the feline’s conspicuous spots, is life long. Where you to have asked me after my divorce seven years ago I would have [...]

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