When Someone You Love has an Addiction
The fallout from an addiction, for addicts and the people who love them, is devastating – the manipulations, the guilt, the destruction of relationships and the breakage of people. When addicts know...
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Breaking Up With Kids: The New Normal (by Ellen Knott)
In many areas, I am a typical woman. I love to get dressed up, do my hair and put on makeup. I love to shop and cook and wear high heels. In so many ways, I am the quintessential female. But there is...
View ArticleWhen It’s Not You, It’s Them: The Toxic People That Ruin Friendships,...
One of the joys of being human is that we don’t have to be perfect to be one of the good ones. At some point we’ll all make stupid decisions, hurt the people we love, say things that are hard to take...
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Dealing With it Alone – When You Have No Other Option
When I looked at this blank page, I hadn’t even written ten words before I began to feel overwhelmed. It’s a feeling that I haven’t experienced for quite a while now; it’s been more than three years...
View ArticleWhen Someone You Love is Toxic – How to Let Go, Without Guilt
If toxic people were an ingestible substance, they would come with a high-powered warning and secure packaging to prevent any chance of accidental contact. Sadly, families are not immune to the...
View ArticleToxic Relationships: How to Let Go When It’s Unhappily Ever After
If life ran like a storybook, the person we fall in love would not be the person who broke us. Sadly, we humans tend to be a bit more human than that. We fall in love, we commit, we get hurt – over and...
View Article15 Signs of a Toxic Relationship
Toxic relationships will cause monumental breakage to people, families and workplaces, but they aren’t necessarily the territory of the weak, downtrodden or insecure. Strong, healthy, independent...
View Article5 Things You Need To Know About Domestic Abuse
When it comes to understanding domestic violence, it can be surprisingly easy to fall prey to assumptions. We know that it occurs regularly, and most may even speculate that it happens more frequently...
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Co-Parenting – How to Co-Operate with Your Ex to Protect Your Child
“You can be bitter or you can be better,” my mom used to say. It’s become my mantra for relationships. With respect to an ex, a former beloved that’s now reduced to two letters, this mantra is hard to...
View ArticleAfter the Affair – How to Forgive, and Heal a Relationship From Infidelity
Infidelity happens for plenty of reasons. None of them good ones. It happens because of ego or stupidity or breakage. Or because of smugness or ignorance or a widening ache or an emptiness or the need...
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