In much the same way your prized soles needed an intervention to bring back their vibrancy and va-va-vooom, your relationship was suddenly facing the same hurdle.
I have been successfully co-parenting, for the benefit of my kids, since the day my ex and I separated 10 years ago, and here are the five things that have gotten me to where I am today.
You won’t be there to do laundry for them in college—no mater how often they seem to come home with dirty clothes.
Ladies, are you going on a date anytime soon? Here is some sound advice on how to make a good first impression and have a good time.
I am my mother’s daughter, and each day of my young life began in her harvest gold bathroom where she worked taming my coarse and stubbornly frizzy hair.
We can’t be happy if we see ourselves as the victim. The victim is never happy. There comes a time when we need to change the narrative, tell ourselves a different story, play a different character.
But last night after seeing Jake with his arms around Seth Weinberg and Josh Steinman, he got the shock of his life when picture #149 contained Weinberg and Steiner but not his son.
So when it’s time time ship your kid off, it is highly unlikely that you are going to be able to just turn off the “parenting switch.”
Even though I struck a cord, it would take me the next decade, and a few more friendships lost, to understand that it’s really OK when someone you invest in decides to walk away.
“Do you think it’s worse to be left for a woman than a man?”
If I had money for every time that question was posed to me, I’d have a lot of money. The truth is, I wasn’t left for either; I was put on the back burner so he could figure out his station in life. He came to the conclusion that, at 47 years old, he preferred men.