While establishing your own household boundaries and firmly defending those boundaries against emotional manipulation and constant whining, another problem or difficulty may emerge. You may become aware that your ex-wife is living and behaving in ways that are immature, unhealthy, and unwise. Read the rest…
Making friends accomplishes several things: Read the rest…
Okay: Ready, Set… Oh, you don’t feel quite ready? Well, that’s the first step—getting ready. Setting up your dating process to be successful right from the first will make the whole thing easier and less anxiety-producing. Read the rest…
We all want happy endings, and we want to know it’s coming in advance—like reading the last page of a novel when the story gets scary, to see if it comes out all right. But, dating, like the rest of life, doesn’t work that way. You won’t know the end until you get there. You get to decide when you reach the ending—if you don’t give up, you can meet your goals. Read the rest…
Many single parents have at least one compliant child, for whom and with whom it’s sufficient to complete just stages one and two, above. However, for any parent with multiple children, the stage of enforcement will not only be necessary, it will be a regular feature of your parenting time. Get used to enforcement: You’ll be doing a lot of it. Read the rest…
