Changing one’s part in a relationship shaped by coercive control is a declaration, for themselves and their children, that dignity and emotional safety are fundamental.

How might one validate their child’s feelings without criticizing their co-parent?

A thoughtfully designed Parenting Plan can honor each parent’s values while offering growing, evolving children the benefit of growing, evolving parents.

I was not longing for Helen or the time of my life when she first appeared. I was feeling something about myself now, as related to my ideas of her always.

What would it feel like to accept your former partner’s experience of your relationship’s ending?

The layers of holiday celebration promise to test hearts and co-parenting mettle over the next month.

Let’s challenge ourselves to slow down – to heal, foster closeness, and assure our children of our support, and their own resilience, in difficult times.

If you’re raising a camper, you’re giving them a gift that will resonate for a lifetime. Keep the focus on your child’s experience, and you’ll all do great.

The idea that Mother’s Day should be reframed to sincerely honor its range of emotional implications isn’t a fight I’ll be taking to retailers, but I do offer the idea to you.

A marriage doesn’t need to last a lifetime to cultivate growth, gratitude, and relational rewards that go the distance.

Only recently did I reflect on my life in the form of a Venn diagram.

As a representative of the “I don’t care about Valentine’s Day” set, am I just working an expectations shell game on myself?

Treacherous as it was, my divorce offered me an unparalleled opportunity to recognize and connect to a dynamic, anchoring sense of self.