Category Archives: Divorce

Top 5: Tips for single-parents

This on goes out to Andy Westbrook, who requested that I post on single-parenting. By way of background, I have primary care of my two pubescent boys. Their dad lives just a couple of suburbs away, and has unrestricted access … Continue reading

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Ask – and you shall receive

I’ve spent the last 18 months in a personal wilderness. I’ve made a lot of progress in that time, but it’s not been easy. An extended period of severe depression was followed by intense introspection, reflection and a whole lot of … Continue reading

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Neurotic numbness

Like a scene from The Neverending Story, the Nothingness washes over my life like a tsunami – leaving only the echo of empty rhetoric painting a beige white-wash atop the decomposing elements of a promising life. I’m feeling a tad … Continue reading

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Miss. Understood?

Government departments are stoopid [sic]. The particular Government department with which I’m in constant liaison regarding my divorce has included me on their mailing list as MRS Ex-husband. MRS. *AHEM* Have they MISSED something?! *sheesh* Talk about being slow on the uptake. … Continue reading

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