When you have a high conflict ex, there’s also the relief that comes from the absence of fear and anger that was ever-present in your marriage.

Life after divorce is full of ups and downs. This week, not gonna lie, there have been more downs!

At times like this, divorce coaches across the internet will tell you to create your own traditions; to not be so attached to the actual holiday day itself.

And now for some strategies on working with this problem on the micro level—taking your power back through parallel parenting.

As promised, we’ll continue our discussion about how women fare financially in divorce, the financial impacts of post-divorce abuse, and the sometimes difficult but always powerful parallel parenting.

Like all good things in society, money and power are wielded by people who are pretty much anything but divorced mothers.

It’s the term I use to describe what happens when I find myself suddenly scrambling to fix things for my kids.

Depending on where you are in your divorce process, you may be one of those people who believes that telling your ex when they’re wrong is absolutely the thing you’re supposed to do.