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Category Archive for 'Divorce'

The Cinemascope Version

Posted in Co-parenting, Divorce, Holidays, Love, Parenting, Peacemaking, Remarriage on Apr 26th, 2008

I was selling my book at the LA Times Festival of Books today, when I heard a woman’s voice say “Don’t I know you?” After about five minutes of cross-referencing, we figured out that we had shared a cabin at a church camp about 12 years ago, had had Thanksgiving together at my old [...]

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How we do holidays

Posted in Boundaries, Divorce, Holidays on Dec 24th, 2007

Both G and I have been with both kids every Christmas of their lives.   And whether or not that’s a truly important statistic, it feels kind of important.  Important enough for us to have made the effort to figure out some strategies that seem pretty sensible.  Maybe other dual-households can benefit by hearing how we work it.
Even [...]

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Cold Hard Facts

Posted in Divorce, Miscellaneous, Perspectives on Nov 24th, 2007

Chilling.
I just looked up some statistics on second marriages and, boy, they are not good.  When Jill and I first started talking about this blog, we tried to figure out roughly how many marriages were second marriages and how many ended in divorce.  We both guessimated — based on what? a hope that humans can [...]

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