Archive for the 'Divorce' Category

7 Steps to Making Love Last

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

My husband and I just celebrated our twentieth wedding anniversary.  I think it’s a miracle, when you consider that four years ago I left him and was utterly sure that we would divorce.

A New Relationship Model

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Newsweek magazine published an article called “The Princess and the Terminator,” an article about older couples divorcing and starting over based on the Shriver/Schwarzenegger divorce.  The author, Susan Cheever, states “Once apon a time men and women in their 50’s and 60’s didn’t have serious marital problems– this was primarily because they were dead.”

Why People Cheat

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Brace yourselves:  another celebrity has admitted to having an affair.  Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted that he fathered a child with a household staffer while he and Maria Shriver were married.  It happened ten years ago but was revealed this year.  Maria moved out immediately, and now they’re planning to divorce. I wonder, though, if cheating [...]

Groundhog Day

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Did you ever feel like you’re in the movie Groundhog Day when it comes to your romantic relationships?  Although the movie is a comedy, it contains a serious message.  The Bill Murray character does eventually, after dozens of failed attempts, to do some things right and get his woman.  The movie is a parody of [...]

3 Things I Wish I’d Known

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Maria Shriver recently asked a question on YouTube:  What are three things you wished you’d known during your last transition?  As she navigates her newly announced separation from Arnold Schwarzenegger, here are the three things I think will be most helpful to her… and things I wished I’d known during my own separation.