Genevieve Dreizen 5/27/26 Genevieve Dreizen 5/27/26

When Someone Tells You What They Need, Believe Them

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with divorce, and it has nothing to do with lawyers or paperwork or dividing up the furniture.

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Navigating the Divorce Process: How Coaching Helps Individuals Stay Grounded, Organized, and Empowered During One of Life’s Hardest Transitions

Navigating the Divorce Process: How Coaching Helps Individuals Stay Grounded, Organized, and Empowered During One of Life’s Hardest Transitions by Hope Firsel, Divorce Coach

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Rebuilding After Divorce: How Coaching Helps Individuals Heal, Reclaim Themselves, and Create a Meaningful New Chapter

Rebuilding After Divorce: How Coaching Helps Individuals Heal, Reclaim Themselves, and Create a Meaningful New Chapter by Hope Firsel, Divorce Coach

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When Divorce Is a Thought You Can’t Ignore: How Coaching Helps Men and Women Navigate One of Life’s Most Difficult Decisions

When Divorce Is a Thought You Can’t Ignore: How Coaching Helps Men and Women Navigate One of Life’s Most Difficult Decisions by Hope Firsel, Divorce Coach

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Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Divorce Attorney as an LGBTQ Person

Finding the right divorce attorney is one of the most important decisions you'll make during this process. For LGBTQ+ people, that search comes with an additional layer — because not every attorney who is technically qualified is actually equipped to handle the specific legal and personal nuances your case may involve. Here are eight questions to ask before you sign anything.

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LGBTQ+ Divorce 101: What's Different, What's the Same, and What You Need to Know

Divorce is hard. Full stop. And while the emotional terrain of uncoupling — the grief, the relief, the reinvention — is universal, there are real and important ways that LGBTQ divorce can look different from what most mainstream resources describe. If you're navigating the end of a same-sex marriage or LGBTQ+ partnership, here are six things worth knowing.

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You Were Never Supposed to Do This Alone

You Were Never Supposed to Do This Alone by Taylor Beck of Revive & Rise Coaching

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Broke By Design - The financial abuse doesn't end when the papers are signed.

Broke By Design - The financial abuse doesn't end when the papers are signed by Ksenia Muench, Divorce Coach

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Befriending the Monster of Change

Befriending the Monster of Change of Joy Read of National Association for Single and Divorced Families (NASDF.org)

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Can a Shattered Heart Lead to Your Greatest Love Story?

Can a Shattered Heart Lead to Your Greatest Love Story? by Robyn Vogel of Come Back to Love

Genevieve Dreizen 5/15/26 Genevieve Dreizen 5/15/26

Divorce Doesn't Look One Way — and Neither Does Starting Over

June Letter from the Editor

Marriage equality was a landmark — but equality in dissolution hasn't caught up. In this issue's editor's letter, Jenny Dreizen calls out the legal gaps, professional blind spots, and lack of affirming support that LGBTQ+ individuals still face when a marriage ends. Finding the right attorney or therapist shouldn't be a second battle. Divorce doesn't look one way — neither does starting over."

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Divorce Guide: 10 Essential Questions to Ask a Relationship Coach While Navigating Your Divorce

Discover the 10 essential questions to ask a relationship coach while navigating your divorce to find the right support for healing, rebuilding confidence, and improving communication. Learn how their experience, coaching strategies, and emotional sensitivity can help you move forward stronger and more self-aware.

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Hey Olivia: What Actually Happens to Family Heirlooms When You Get Divorced?

A reader wants to know how divorce handles the things that matter most — and discovers this is one of the most emotionally complicated questions nobody prepares you for.

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Divorce 101: J Is for Joint Custody (and June)

Joint custody is one of the most common — and most misunderstood — concepts in divorce. It doesn't automatically mean a 50/50 split. It's not a scorecard. And it's not a measure of parental worth. This piece breaks down what joint custody actually means, why the distinction between legal and physical custody matters, and how to think about it as a framework — not a competition.

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Jenny Says So: The Post-Divorce Set-Up Parade

What do you do when everyone wants to set you up — but you're still figuring out who you are post-divorce? In this column, Jenny tackles the pressure to date before you're ready, why your timeline isn't anyone else's business, and the exact scripts to shut it down with grace. Kindness doesn't require compliance.

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Review: Unfuck Your Parenting by Bonnie Scott & Faith G. Harper

I'm just going to say it: the title is perfect. Because sometimes that's exactly what parenting feels like — something that needs unfucking. Urgently. Bonnie Scott and Dr. Faith G. Harper are parents and therapists, writing from two of the most useful vantage points imaginable. They're not handing you an idealized vision of what parenting should look like. They're meeting you in the chaos of what it actually is. Raise good humans. Stay a whole person while you do it. This book helps with both.