When we think of the teenage years we might think of stress and hormones. Drama, fighting, drinking, sex, drugs, standardized tests, and a host of other things that cause our anxiety as parents to go through the roof. I know I was personally terrified of the teenage years. I was obviously a teenager. And my […]
“Do you think I’m codependent?” I asked as I sat in my therapist’s office. I was trying to recover from my recent discovery that my husband of 22 years had been cheating on me. I’m not even sure where the word ‘codependent’ came into my awareness or why it had occurred to me to ask […]
How to Deal with Anger After Divorce I didn’t hear a clink as my wedding ring dropped in the collection plate. I’d wrapped it in a note saying something to the effect of “I hope you can use this in some way for good. Sell it or give it to someone who doesn’t have a […]