It can take 1-2 years or more to recover from divorce or separation. You need to create a new identity, discovering who you are as a single person, finding a sense of belonging in your community, finding or consolidating social networks, and adjusting to single parenthood. If you have kids, you have to re-learn how to deal with your ex, shifting communication styles, becoming more formal and distant. It may be hard to create new boundaries with your ex. The fighting may continue, or one of you m …

ENDING A RELATIONSHIP IS AN EMOTIONAL DECISION WITH LEGAL AND FINANCIAL RAMIFICATIONS, NOT A LEGAL DECISION WITH EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES Are you a woman or man struggling with the ending of your relationship? Are you already divorced or separated and feeling that it continues to be difficult to manage? Do you sometimes wonder how you are going to get through the next conversation with your former partner or soon-to-be former partner? I work primarily with people engaged in some aspect of divorc …

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