How to Be a Good Dad During Divorce: Where Your Attention Goes
It comes down to one resource nobody warns you is finite. It is not time and it is not money. It is your attention, and in the beginning I spent mine in the worst place I could.
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Signs of Healing After Divorce: Why You Are the Last to Notice
Everyone told me it would get better. Nobody told me I would be the last person to know when it did.
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Recovering From Divorce for Men: The Day I Stopped Waiting to Feel Better
For a long time I was waiting for a morning that was never going to come. Recovery is not a morning that arrives. It is a practice you run.
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Holidays Without Your Kids: How to Get Through the Quiet
Nobody sits you down and warns you about a holiday morning in a house that is supposed to have noise in it, and does not.
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Lessons of a Divorced Dad: What Keeping a Divorce Journal Did to Me
Write everything down. It is the first advice every father gets, and it was the most harmful thing I did in the entire divorce. Nobody warns you what it costs, or how to make it give something back.
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Father’s Day After Divorce: The Day You Grade Your Own Fathering
I built the divorced dad journal I wish someone had handed me when I filed. Ninety days. One reset. Ships in September.
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The journal I wish someone had handed me
I built the divorced dad journal I wish someone had handed me when I filed. Ninety days. One reset. Ships in September.
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Lessons of a Divorced Dad: Showing Up for Your Kids After Divorce Starts With You
A moment from my life
It was late.
The kids were asleep.
My phone lit up with a message that was unfair and incomplete.I had the facts. I had the history. I had every reason to respond.
I stood there for a minute with my phone in my hand, already drafting the reply in my head. The kind of reply that would feel good for about ninety seconds and then live forever.
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Lessons of a Divorced Dad: When Your Kid Asks Why You Don’t Love Their Mom
A moment from my life
It was late.
The kids were asleep.
My phone lit up with a message that was unfair and incomplete.I had the facts. I had the history. I had every reason to respond.
I stood there for a minute with my phone in my hand, already drafting the reply in my head. The kind of reply that would feel good for about ninety seconds and then live forever.
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What Gets Passed Down Without a Word
A moment from my life
It was late.
The kids were asleep.
My phone lit up with a message that was unfair and incomplete.I had the facts. I had the history. I had every reason to respond.
I stood there for a minute with my phone in my hand, already drafting the reply in my head. The kind of reply that would feel good for about ninety seconds and then live forever.
