In our last five posts, we discussed strategies and tactics for how to talk to other people about your divorce. But perhaps the most important conversations you will have about the divorce will be with yourself. Neurological research shows that our “self-talk” can...
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Month: April 2014
How to Talk to Your New Love Interest about Your Tustin, California Divorce
How should you talk about your divorce with a new boyfriend or girlfriend? After a divorce or separation, your needs for companionship, love, fulfillment, etc. don’t just disappear. They may lie dormant for a few months, as you process what happened to the...
How to Talk to Mutual Friends about Your California Divorce
Here’s one of the most challenging aspects to getting divorce: how should you present the news to mutual friends? Should you “split up” friends from the marriage? Or is it obnoxious and unfair to force your friends to “choose”? Despite the proliferation of advice...
How to Talk to Your Colleagues about Your California Divorce
How should you talk to your work colleagues about your divorce or separation? The answer to this question depends on many factors, including whether or not you work with your spouse, your degree of closeness with your employees or boss, and your level of comfort...
How to Talk to Your In-Laws about Your California Divorce
In our last post, we talked about how to break the news about your divorce to your parents. Here’s a trickier problem: how should you talk with your in-laws about the split? Perhaps you have a rocky relationship with your mother-in-law or sister-in-law, and you’re...
How to Talk to Your Parents about Your California Divorce
You are contemplating separating or getting divorced from your spouse. As part of that process, you need to discuss or break the news to various people in your life. In today’s post and multiple posts that will follow, we’re going to provide insights about how to have...
Welcome to the Hotel California – Part 4
In addition to taking care of your body, mind, and soul — so that you can concentrate on your next steps regarding your California separation — you also need to manage your work. A major marital fight can make work life complicated. Now might be a really good time to...
Welcome to the Hotel California – Part 3
In addition to documenting what’s going on in your life and marriage — and researching California divorce attorneys ASAP — you also may need to make adjustments to your life and business, now that you have moved out of your house into a hotel. First and foremost, you...
Welcome to the Hotel California – Part 2
Right now, you are sitting in a hotel room, ruminating over what’s happened in your marriage and trying to figure out your next steps. Perhaps you cheated on your wife with a colleague at work, and you are ruing what’s become of your once loving relationship. Or maybe...
Welcome to the Hotel California – Part 1
You recently separated from your spouse, and you had to move out to stay in a hotel. Now you’re trying to regroup and figure out what to do. Should you get a divorce? Should you be researching attorneys? How are you going to protect your kids? Can your relationship be...