When it comes to dealing with pain, the strangest thing I ever did to help me move on was to literally speak to myself, out loud, while I got ready for bed one day. I had spent the day, like the previous
At the tender age of 37 years old and having just ended my second marriage, I was asked to write an article for The Divorce Magazine and to talk about the struggles I have overcome. Of course I was overjoyed. My first
My story demonstrates the immense legal, financial, and psychological struggles that fathers can go through, simply to look after their children. But it also shows that there can be light at the end of the tunnel. From the outset, I was
My case started in December 2011, a week before Christmas, when I returned home from work to find my house looking like the scene of a burglary, and my partner and our 3-year-old daughter gone. No note, no text, nothing. I was
“It was Valentine’s Day. I had just found out that my husband of ten years had purchased a gift for another woman. All day, I was numb. Surreally, I drifted through my day with heaviness in my heart. I hung onto denial
“But he’s such a nice bloke!” everyone protested. And they were right. Colin, father of my son, Jamie, was a lovely man, a wonderful friend and a great dad. He still is. Yet much as I appreciated Colin, I was increasingly unhappy
When earlier this year, the newspapers were full of the Vicky Price story, the worst moments of my marriage came back to hunt me. Marital coercion and mental pressure were examined, explained, and laughed at and again she was not believed. There
Finding Love TOTNES is full of single mothers and hardly any single men – my new friends in Devon were quite adamant. “I hope you’re not expecting to find a partner down here!” But I wasn’t moving to Totnes to find a