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- A Real Man in Divorce: How My Ex-wife’s New Husband Stirs Up Discord
- Fathers and Daughters: Divorce Affects Us Differently
- Marriage Story Review: Reckoning with the Blowback
- Why Does So Much Anger Flare When I Write About Child Support?
- Does Online Dating Suck, Or is it Us? What Are You Hoping to Find?
- The Inner Life of Your Kid: Navigating Our Own Rainy Fridays
- Dads Will Love You In a Way No One Else Can
- Our Response to Someone Else is 100% Up to Us: Choose the Positive
- The Struggle is Real: Dads Headed for Divorce Must Fight for the Kids
- Six Masterclass Lessons on Divorce: Finding a Light After the Loss
- Why Divorcing Always Mom’s Deserve
ChildSupport - “Alexa, Please…” An Open Letter to Amazon’s Alexa from All Parents
- The Irreconcilably Irritating Present And How to Find Peace in It
- “When Are You Going to Get Over Your Divorce?” Is the Wrong Question
- How a Loving Relationship Changes Everything: The Vulnerability Prayer
- From Dating to Love: Either Show Up 100% of the Time, Or You’re Gone
- The Loss of Kid-time Has Been the Biggest Source of Pain in My Life
- Single Parents Finding Each Other: 4 Relationship Requirements
- An Evolved and Powerful Woman Exposes Her Fear Around Dating Again
- The Divorce Gender Bias: Men Need to Be Considered Equally in Divorce
- What Kills Marriages? Top Five Fails According to a Divorce Attorney
- How Men Carry the Emotional Load of Parenting Differently Than Women
- Bad Habits We’re Supposed To Outgrow As We Become Parents
- Always Being the Better Man: Dads In Divorce Leading with Love
- Divorce Zero: How the Pre-Natal Agreement Was Born
- The Breakfast King: All the Family Mornings Lost After Divorce
- 18 Reasons Porn Might Be Evil: Is Healthy Porn Possible?
- I Did Not See the Biggest Red Flag of My Life: Start Marriage w/ a Lie
- The Pre-Natal Agreement Changes Everything About Being a Parent
- Single Dad Dating: A Few Things We’d Like You to Know
- The Narrative After Divorce: What Your Kids Will Never Know
- Encouraging News About Online Dating from One of the Good Guys
- Dads Are Equal Parents, But Only If They Step Up to the Challenge
- You’re Not the Only One Who Doesn’t Want to Be Alone Tonight
- The Pre-Natal Agreement from The Whole Parent
- Relationship Building Skills & Wisdom: BRAVING & The Four Agreements
- How A Male Life Coach Can Provide Perspective a Different Perspective
- Where Do You Seek Your Soulmate? Online Dating is Failing Us All
- The Art of Indifference After Divorce: Letting Go With Intention
- Divorce in America – The Infographic
- Mom’s Entitlement After Divorce: Understanding Parental Alienation
- Trying to Push the River: Forcing Your Dating Journey Won’t Work
- What If Things Had Gone Different In My Marriage and In My Divorce
- Finding Joy as a Single Parent During the Holidays: Our Celebration
- The First Holiday Season As a Single Dad: Stepping Into the Void
- A Fractured Family Christmas: One Single-parent’s Anti-Depression Plan
- Reflecting On My Ex-wife’s Rage Nine Years After the Divorce She Wanted
- The Approaching Storm Before the Divorce: It Wasn’t One Thing
- A Rebirth of the Compassionate Parent & Divorced Dad Advocate
- Own Your Pain, Leave the Rest Alone: Relationship Building Skills
- Learn the CORE Dating Skills – Courses for MEN and WOMEN Announced
- How Are We Cheating On Our Romantic Partners Everyday?
- I’ve Lost My Fire: How to Regain a Passionate Life
- A Good Dad’s Guide to Divorce – Book Release
- Five Ground Rules for Online Dating: Seeking a Long-term Relationship
- Finding My Authentic Self: Can You See the Real Me?
- What Makes a Great Dad? 5 Things I Learned From My Divorce
- There is No Right Swipe in the Real World: From Date to Lover
- The War on Divorcing Fathers: Deadbeat Dad Accusations Are Abusive
- The Hero’s Journey of Depression: The Max Powers Story
- I Know My Depression Frightens You: It’s Okay, We’re In This Together
- aspiring towards unity – a love poem
- Getting Started Again with Online Dating: So, You’ve Broken Up…
- Fear of Being Alone, Again – Humans of Divorce
- 7 Laws of Healthy Relationship Building: What Are We All Hungry For?
- Let’s Talk About Masculinity: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
- on a beautiful day like today – a poem
- Closure with Your Ex After Divorce: Setting Up Healthy Boundaries
- Uppers and Downers: Caffeine, Alcohol, and Micro-dosing
- The Struggles and Fears About Divorce: Humans of Divorce
- We Do the Walk of Life
- We Do The Best We Can and Still We Fail: A Marriage Requiem
- I Wish You Well, and Absolutely Nothing Else: Re-forgiving a Co-parent
- My Love Message: No Worries, Just Desires
- Announcing the Little Book of The Third Glass
- Next-Level Parenting: Being Awesome Even in Divorce
- Asking for Support is Hard for Most of Us, Especially Men
- The Four Simple Rules for Dads Getting Divorced
- Men and Divorce with Children: My 9-year Retrospective
- Letting Go of Dreams Update – Celebrating The Whole Parent Year Six
- #SoberOctober Challenge – Day One
- Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Nostalgia and Lessons Learned
- Finding Our Way Forward As Dads Before, During, and After Divorce
- Taking the Long Way Home: My Divorce Journey Back to Joy
- Fall Arrives: Pulling Back the Curtain on The Off Parent
- Tenderness and the Heart of Gold: The Gift of Dating a Single Dad
- Top 4 Complaints from Married Men and How to Address Them
- Alcohol May Not Be Your Friend: My #SoberOctober Challenge
- New Online Dating Survey Provides a Little Light and Misdirection
- My Porcupine Period: Expressing Dissatisfaction In My Marriage
- 10 Positive Thoughts for You About Your Upcoming Divorce
- A Single Dad Sends His Hope and Greetings from the Other Side
- The Core Feeling of Connection and Love
- The Company You Keep and Keeping Your Own Company
- What Dads Fear Most About Divorce
- 5 Health Factors to Prevent or Lessen Seasonal Depression: Get Support
- Let’s See What Happens: Relationship Building
- 80% of Single Moms Will Never Understand a Single Dad’s Struggle
- Her Aspirational Divorce: Seeking a Better Life for Your Kids
- Healing My Divorce Resentment: A Single Dad Contemplates the Future
- Reaching a Moment of Peace and Happiness As a Single Dad
- She Can’t Contain My Sadness: She Can’t Contain My Happiness Either
- Heal Your Heart from the Fear and Loss by Opening with Vulnerability
- Self-Care and Appreciation: Can I Love All of Myself Right Now?
- Here I Go Again: Wait! Hold Up! Let’s Reassess the Situation
- Dad’s Divorce Journey: 9-years Later I Still Feel the Loss of Kid-time
- 3 Required Traits for Building a Lasting Relationship
- Emotional Intelligence Essentials for Long-Term Relationship Success
- Pausing in the Gap: Trying to Force An Answer Is Not the Way
- 7 Habits of a Sizzling Sex Life: Relationship Building
- The 3-point Formula for Loving Relationships: Where You Lead I Follow
- Fool In The Rain: A Brief Retelling of My Divorce and Rebirth
- Announcing the Whole Parent podcast: Love on the Air
- Loss, Sadness, and Indifference: Struggles of a Single Dad
- Missplaning Divorce: How Women Benefit In an Imbalanced Divorce
- All of your Life is Input + All of your Actions are Output
- She Was Lovely and She Liked To Drink: A Third Glass Love Story
- Discovering and Recovering Love w/ a New Partner
- Why Does Online Dating Suck? How to Find Your Next Partner.
- My Single Parent Slogan: Every Day At a Time
- How Did I Miss So Much In My Marriage? Divorced, I Now Understand.
- Managing Depression In Romantic Relationships: Getting Real w/ Myself
- Keeping Your Cool When Your Lover Is On Fire with Rage
- Sexual Fulfillment: I Don’t Know The Answer, Let’s Find Out Together
- Defining the Deadbeat Mom
- How a Secure Attachment Looks and Feels in a Love Relationship
- The Fear of Divorce: Holding On When You Should Let Go
- A Few Small Repairs: Solving and Celebrating Misconnections in Love
- Online Dating Advice from the Whole Parent: Get Over Yourself
- The Major Downsides of Dating a Single Dad: YourTango Dating Advice
- 6 Lies About Men’s Fear of Commitment: Understanding and Loving Men
- Divorce, Depression, and the Puzzlement of My Ex-wife
- The Joy of Sex Itself: What Are the Sexual Differences Between Men & Women?
- Nine Years Into My Divorce: Finding My Single Parenting Superpower
- As a Single Parent: Love Fiercely, Because This All Ends
- Deadbeat… < What's the First Word That Came to Mind?
- Dating for Adults in An Online World: The Lover You Are Looking For
- Humans of Divorce: Why Child Support Should Be Cooperative
- Dear Ex, I Will Forgive You, But I Will Never Forget What You Did
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: On Soulmates & Lovers
- Single Dad Survival Guide: “Dear Step Dad” Let’s Cooperate
- I’ve Had Enough: My Ex-wife Pushes for Gold Again
- Crossing the Chasm into Fantastic Realism: Salvation and Celebration
- Why Father’s Day Sucks and Mother’s Day Rocks: Single Dad Stories
- If Drinking is An Issue In Your Relationship: Check-in w/ Yourself
- The Last Battle of My Divorce: Teenaged Children in the Crossfire
- Total System Failure: Rebooting My Life, Again
- More Self-Care, Less Rush Rush Stress and Anxiety
- You Are Loved: A Meditation on Self-love and Self-awareness
- Even the High Is Exhausting: A Mindful Pause
- If You’re Happy and You Know It: Our Spiritual Connection w/ Each Other
- You’re a Hard Act to Follow: Breakups, Divorces, & Learning to Move On
- The Big Lies My Wife Told and Our Divorced Parenting Struggles
- Depression is for Everyone: Managing Moods is the Trick
- The Emotional Cost of Divorce is High for Everyone
- Single Dad Writes to his 16-year-old Daughter About the Divorce
- 18 Signs a Single Dad Likes You: Dating Again as a Single Mom
- Am I Addicted to Touch?
- Online Dating Optimized – The Next Chapter of Dating After a Breakup
- The Trouble with Alcohol: She Likes To Drink, I Don’t
- 4 Steps to Recovering Your Loving Self: We Bring Our Own Issues
- Dating and Sex: A Guide for Dating a Single Parent
- 5 Single Parent Dating Issues (And How to Solve Them)
- 6 Steps of Authentic Online Dating
- Evolved Dating: 4 Ideas About Dating with Mindfulness
- Six Real Benefits of Dating a Single Dad
- Evolved Dating: Driven in the Non-linear World of Relationships
- I Cannot Fix Your Broken Wings, I’m Still Repairing Mine
- Standing Strong Together: Boundaries and Relationships in the #METOO Era
- Parenting Lesson: Always Consider Lightening Your Kid’s Load
- Depression: Yeah, Me and My Broken Leg
- Relationships Questions: When You End Up Alone, Again
- What Makes Dating Hard: Can We Be Honest Online and In-Person?
- Not Taking the Death Pony Ride into the Darkness
- A Good Dad’s Guide to Divorce – Now Available
- Why Is Online Dating So Hard?
- A Moment of Silence, Followed By… (checking-in on holiday depression)
- What Do You Tell Your Kids About Divorce As They Grow Older?
- Swiping Right: The Artificial High of Online Dating Apps
- Revealed Truths About Online Dating Apps (Online Dating Study)
- The Odyssey of the Single Father: Kids Change Everything
- Experience, Strength, and Hope After a Divorce with Kids
- Online Dating Apps: Do You Have the Time and Energy for Romance?
- Single Father Manifesto: I’ll Never Stop Pursuing You
- When Hopelessness Enters the Equation: Divorce + Depression
- The Divorce Brochure : Hey Dads, How Does This Sound to You?
- The Prayer for All Single Parents (downloadable)
- The Low-Conflict Divorce Hustle: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You
- What I Imagined About the Coming Divorce: The Loss Was Worse
- Self-Care and Fitness: How You Treat Yourself Says More than You Think
- Why The Amazingly Beautiful Woman Is Not Responding to My Messages
- Empty Nest Syndrome: How a Typical Divorce Affects Fathers Differently
- The Gamification of Online Dating: Why You’re Not Connecting
- The Divorce Brochure: How Women Can Play the Game of Divorce to Win
- Becoming a Single Co-parent by Releasing Your Ex
- What Went Down: Divorce is Not Kind. Co-parenting is a Myth.
- Co-parenting Struggles: Withholding the Joy of Your Kids
- A Pleasant First Date and the Change of Seasons Arrives
- When Divorce Negotiations Start at 70 – 30 Custody, the Kids Lose
- The Long Retelling of My Divorce
- The Beauty Trap: How Good Looks Can Lead Us Astray
- When Everything Goes Right: Do You Have a Dating Roadmap?
- My Ex May Think I’m the Enemy, But She Is Misguided
- What the Bear in Your Bed Might Be Telling You: Managing Anxiety
- The Hierarchy of Relationship Needs: My Four Levels of Attraction
- Sexual Hunger: How Friends with Benefits Became a Lie for Me
- The Positive Divorce – Whole Parent 2018 Update
- Would You Damage Your Co-Parent’s Livelihood If You Could?
- Going Meta: Divorce, Depression, and Befriending Sadness
- The Divorced Dad Syndrome Miss-plained By a Divorced Mom
- The Divorce Whisperer
- What I Need To Tell You: Take Heart After Divorce. It Gets Better.
- Online Dating Adventure: What Is Your Quest?
- Wondering About Beauty, Sex, and My Pursuit of a Lasting Relationship
- Top 3 Online Dating Tips: The Challenge of Finding a Relationship
- Do You Know the DNA of Your Perfect Day?
- Your Kids Are Watching How You Cope with Divorce
- Field Notes for My Next Marriage (Remember This Before Getting Married)
- How a Balanced Divorce Would Have Better Served My Children
- Relationships at the Speed of Life: On Becoming a Couple Together
- Beginning a #metoo Conversation Is Difficult for Both Men and Women
- The Beleaguered Single Mother
- A Radical Approach to Joy
- Tapping Into the Sadness Underneath My Recent Losses
- Beautiful Women and Refactoring My Approach to Dating After Divorce
- Just Because You Feel It, Doesn’t Mean It’s There
- Sex Without Desire Is More Like Porn Than Lovemaking
- The Blurry Lines Between Divorced Parents: Entitlement & Narcissism
- Learning from the Hits and Misses of My Last Relationship
- Dating Lessons: All This Swiping Feels a Bit Demeaning
- The Joyful Woman is Nearby, I’ve Seen Her
- Divorce, Kids, and Money: How Co-parenting and Custody Breakdown Roles
- One Man’s Courage to Stand Alone: Brené Brown’s BRAVING
- Passive-Aggressive Miscommunication: Do You Want a Drink?
- Why Adding Cocktails to Your Emotional Mix Might Not Be Working
- Letting Go of Those We Love
- Stepping Back Into the Breach: Dating Again After Divorce
- Co-Parenting Problems and Healing Strategies
- Back to the Beginning: Co-Parenting with Serenity
- Big Love Burns Through All Other Things
- Dating A Single Parent: Two Simple Checklists
- Dads Group Initiative in Schools
- Connecting with Teenagers One at a Time on Their Terms, Always
- The Good Dad’s Divorce: Being Asked to Leave Everything Behind
- Seeking Happy: A Dad Explains His Joyousness
- Are We All Hungry Tigers? Passionate? Predatory?
- Voyeurism, Sadness, and Traveling Alone: a Tincture of Depression
- Displacement: A Single-Parenting Love Story
- Little Ghosts Still Flutter My Heart: a Depression Story
- Grief is Underneath: A Divorce Fable
- Life of Dad – Talks to John About Single-Parenting and Dating Again
- Guidance and Direction Request from John of The Whole Parent
- Erectile Misfire Might Be More About the Sex Than the Dysfunction
- Divorce Lessons: Thanks for the Jetpack, Where’s the Fuel?
- Followed by the Black Dog (of depression)
- When I Stopped Believing – And Started Growing Up
- Cherry PopTarts and Love (fathers & daughters in divorce)
- Team Dad, “Even When We Can No Longer Be Together”
- Young Girls at the Pool: Youth and the Folly of Desire
- Fighting Back Against Depression: How to be a Friend
- It’s a Beautiful Day, and I’m Broke and a Working Deadbeat Dad
- 17 Simple Ways to Say “I Love You”
- Big 5 Relationship Questions to Answer Before You Start Dating Again
- The Good Dad’s Journey Through Divorce
- Serenity with my Ex-wife Begins and Ends with Me
- What Dads Lose In Divorce – Divorce is a Bitch
- Sexual Energy and the Strength of #Desire in Men and Women
- My Miss Fortune – Taking Inventory of my First Two Marriages
- Sex, Love, and Relationships: Dating Is A Bit Like Space Travel
- Sexy Sex and the Other Two Kinds of Romantic Relationship
- Divorce Lessons: It’s the Quiet Time, the Alone Time, the Empty Spaces
- The Divorce Part You’ll Never Understand: Living Within the Compromise
- Here and Now: Touching Objects of Desire
- DATING METAPHOR: Two Tails Are Wagging or Neither Tail Is Wagging
- Gratitude Is Not Always Easy: Child Support Should Be Shared, Not Enforced
- The Coffee Date Fail: A First “Hello” from a Bumble Sweetheart
- Dating Deal Breakers, Red Flags, & Hand Grenades: Trust Building
- When Contemplating Suicide (In the Final Seconds of Life)
- How Am I a Suicide Statistic? Divorced Dads Are High Risk
- Redefining Dating, As a Man, As a Dad, As a Lover
- You Should Go For What Makes You Happy (Divorce Me)
- After Divorce w/ Kids: You Won’t Believe How Good It Can Get
- After Divorce w/ Kids: You Won’t Believe How Good It Can Get
- Pick One: Divorce, Scuba, Skydiving (The Thrilling Adventure of Single-Parenting)
- I Am a Dad’s Rights Advocate: DADI (Dads Against Divorce Inequality)
- Father’s Day As a Single Dad: How Divorce Changed Everything
- Two Beautiful Women and Two Cups of Coffee: How This All Got Started
- All Kinds of Women and the Sparks of Desire: Online Dating for Adults
- Seven Signs of a Healthy Post-Divorce Relationship
- If Divorce was a Game I Might Have Played to Win
- Co-Parenting: Power and Control Issues Will Continue to Be Problematic
- Finding Yourself Along the Path While Seeking a Relationship
- The Sober Person’s Perspective in a Drinking World
- Drinking Is Not the Problem: It’s the Emotional Exit that Wrecks Relationships
- Is Love My Drug of Choice?
- Sometimes, What Is Broken Is Meant to be Left Behind
- My Divorce: A Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory
- Our Thin Threads of Love: Weaving a Pattern of Greatness Together
- Dating Lessons: Gentle Catch and Release
- The 5 Laws of Anger in Divorce and Co-Parenting
- Reversing the Flow: Putting Women in Charge of Dating Advances
- Unadulterated Love: The 9 Rules of Joyful Sex
- Why Some Fathers Give Up After Divorce
- Facing Health Issues Alone; Sometimes You Just Want Someone to Hold Your Hand
- An Absence of Time with My Kids: The Gap Years
- The Death of the Connected Co-Parent
- 7 Messages Parents Need Their Teenaged Kids to Hear
- A Quick-Start Guide for the Divorcing Dad: The Off Times
- Uh Oh, She’s Not Perfect, Not Even Close… Pitfalls of Online Dating Apps
- Losing Everything Again, And Finding Happiness Anyway
- Dating Tips for Modern Adults: Texts, Facebook, Profiles, Phone Calls
- The Five Habits of Bad Sex
- Going for Gratitude with Your Co-Parent, No Matter What
- 5 Early Warning Signs When Dating: Looking for Mr. or Ms. Lovejoy
- Correcting the Lie and Non-existent Science Behind: Intelligence Genes Come from Mothers
- Bad Daddy and the Delicious Breakfast Dilemma (A Single-Parent Fable)
- Will Facebook’s Online Dating App Finally Hook You Up? (And Two Major Flaws That Might Give You Pause)
- What Are the Big Three Relationship Questions After Divorce?
- A Dad’s Path After Divorce Is Hard and Lonely
- The Temptations of a Man in Love
- Sex at 110 Miles Per Hour: Red Flags or Rushing Into Bliss?
- Letting Go of Broken Things: A Marriage Comes Apart
- What Is the Risk of Loving Someone Too Much?
- Rationalizing Your Divorce: Anger is Anger is Anger is…
- Getting My Divorced Dad Weekend with My Kids: Men’s Rights in Divorce
- How Soon Do You Say, “I Love You” In a New Relationship?
- New Relationships and the First Morning Together: Her Morning Elegance
- Podcast: Single Dad Dating with the Dad Bro Show
- Back To The Start: Breakup to Begin Again
- 5 Wonderful and Unexpected Benefits of Being a Serial Monogamist
- Tinder Matches: Is Swiping an Evolution for Dating?
- Diffusing Fire from the Ex: Never You Mind
- How Co-parenting Can Break Down After Divorce & Maintaining Hope
- How My Bipolar Depression Showed Up in High School
- How To Fight Loneliness…
- Dating Boundaries After Divorce: Establishing a Healthy Relationship
- The Unattached Male
- Going Global with the 100%-Positive Single Parent Message
- Imagine a Man
- Universe Says: FULL STOP
- Life Coach Austin Texas: Relationship/Dating Coach, Co-Parenting Coach
- The Waiting is the Hardest Part: Dating a Single Father
- All the White Horses Have Already Been Taken: Crisis in Single Parenting
- Hello Women Readers (Feedback Request)
- There’s Something Missing: On Moods and Chemicals in my Brain
- Find Me Somebody to Love: Aspiring Towards a New Relationship
- In Search of the Ideal Woman: to Rescue, Restore, and Ravish
- The Head and the Heart: Getting In-Sync In Love
- Fearless Love: A Holistic Theory of Active Love
- My Failure with Online Dating Sites
- The Positive Single Dad: Year Four in Review
- Relationship Timing and the Fragility of a True Connection
- Constant Craving: Loneliness and Longing
- Breaking Up: Grief and Loss as a Journey
- Divorced with Children: It Does Get Better
- As Goes the Sex So Goes the Marriage
- Growing Up in a Warzone: Childhood Trauma and Adult PTSD
- Teenaged Kids? Hard to Reach or Open to New Opportunities?
- Your Sex Is On Fire: The Intoxicating Burn of Love
- I Get High: The Flip Side of Depression
- What’s Underneath the Pain?
- Sitting In Silence with the Grief
- Know What Your Relationship Problem Is? Your Family of Origin
- Back In Pursuit of Love: Slow Dating as a Single-Parent
- Facing My Personal Dragon: Depression
- The WholeParent Mission: Positive Single Parenting Year Four
- The Single Dad and His Teenaged Kids
- A Muse Enters and Leaves
- Refinding Yourself After a Breakup
- Dear Single Moms, Here Are the Top
78 Things Single Dads Want - Drinking Lessons
- Don’t Wait and Don’t Settle
- Why I’m Not Dating Again
- Never the One to Quit
- Avoidance Never Works: I Learned About Depression as a Child
- What My Breakup and Recovery Have Felt Like
- My Side of the Mountain – Understanding Depression
- Single Dad, Again
- The 10-point Overview of Match.com: Mis-Match in Online Dating
- Dating A Divorced Dad: We Might Be Good For Each Other
- Single Dad Is Getting Too Close to the Sun: Managing My Moods
- Serenity with my Ex-partner Begins and Ends with Me
- 5 Essential Truths About Sex and the State of Your Relationship
- Why Everybody Seems To Be Having Sex More Than Me
- Depression in a Relationship: Keep Climbing the Hill Together
- The Cut-out Dad
- In Divorce: No We Can’t Be Friends
- The Pretty Women Passing By, Gazelles, Lions, and Human Hunger
- Divorce Lessons: If What You Want Is Love That Lasts
- I Believe In Marriage
- What a Single Father Wants in the Next Relationship, Year 3!
- Coparenting When the Other Person Wants to Fight
- Meet Your Lover at Their Passion: Finding a Lover in the Dating-App-Era
- Going Positive and Growing Stronger After Divorce
- Losing Dads in Divorce
- Trying Again to Be 100% Positive
- Responsible Separation Is Harder than it Sounds
- What I Wish My Ex-wife Knew
- Staying Positive, Resetting, and Getting Positive Again
- Focus on Your Kid’s Strengths
- The Half-life of Divorce
- Custody Should Be a Collaborative Term
- Fierce Love – What You’re Looking For
- The Joy of Young Parents
- Back to School Challenges as a Divorced Dad
- Divorce Statistics
- For Hire: Used Husband, Classic Model, Works Well With Kids
- Haunted By the Ghost of a Kiss: My First Tinder Date Experience
- First Date Lessons: If You’re Not Falling, You’re Not Learning
- Cultivating Low-Reactivity: Co-Parenting with An Angry Partner
- Lessons of an Old Dog: Parenting, Divorce & Codependency
- 1/3 Dad: Most of Your Nights Will Be Alone
- 8 Lessons from My First 2 Divorces
- The Kids are All Right: A Dad’s Divorce Reflections
- Sexual Attraction and the Single Father of a Certain Age
- The Joy of Divorce and the 3 Gifts of Breaking Up
- Five Truths to Help You Thrive After Divorce: The Hero’s Journey
- Focusing On the Other Person is a Trap
- Seven Strategies for Winning Divorce
- Going for Eleven! My Third Glass Story
- Love is the Goal, Discover Your Own Path
- The Big Three Marriage Issues and the Hope of Counseling
- Two People In Love Spread a Message
- My Transformational Divorce: Nothing Would Ever Be the Same
- The Dad Bro Show – Podcast Interview
- Dating a Single Father – Version 2.0
- Co-parenting Revised: Sex and Drugs and Rock’n’Roll
- Don’t Underestimate My Fragility or My Ferocity: Depression & Divorce
- Do You Know What You Want? Dating Strategies After Divorce
- No More Homeless Dads: 50/50 Shared Parenting After Divorce
- Hold On! The Information You’ve Been Given About Divorce is Wrong
- The Little Oblivion I Seek
- A Good Man in a Storm, Even After Divorce
- Minimizing The Collateral Damage of Depression and Divorce
- Thinking About Doing It: Depression and Creativity
- Artists In Love, Parenting, and Divorce
- The Spiritual Quest for Love
- 10 Things I’ve Learned In the 5 Years Since My Divorce
- Celebrating Becoming the Positive Divorce Dad
- The Care and Feeding of Your Lover
- The Training and Education of a Reluctant Divorcé
- What You Can’t Tell Your Kids After Divorce
- Divorce Recovery Journaling: The Life You Write Is the Life You Live
- The 3 Immutable Laws of Positive Co-Parenting
- Ready for the Summer’s End for the Single Dad: Back to School Blues
- The Transcendent Single Father
- Dear Non-Custodial Dad: Here’s What You’re Getting
- Having A Positive Divorce is Up To You: The Two Levels of Healing
- A
SingleDad In Love, Again - Missing the Love Right In Front of Us
- Love at the Speed of Text or Tinder or … f a s t
- What Am I Doing? Divorce, Depression, and a Single Dad In #Recovery
- The Good Side of Divorce – Making Things Go Easier
- Can You Love Yourself As Much As You Desire Someone Else?
- How Faith and Courage Work Together in Love After Divorce
- Inviting the Dinosaur Into Your Divorce: Weaponizing Child Support
- How Love Transforms Us Completely When We Feel the YES
- I Want To Thank You for the Divorce: Moving On to What’s Next
- Drinking Fuzzy Navels and Spending Time Together Doing Nothing
- As a Nice Guy, My Cooperative Divorce Was Not Fair Or Balanced
- Planning For the Future In Your Relationship
- Divorcing with Kids: The Golden Rule – It’s About Time Not Money
- The Third Glass is an Anti-Aphrodisiac for Me
- What I Learned About Sex: It’s Almost All In Your Mind
- Carrying the Load: Money Issues from Marriage to Child Support
- Loving Again as a Single Parent is an Ongoing Leap of Faith
- The Benefits of a Happy Ex-Wife (Positive Divorce and CoParenting)
- Are You Receiving Me? When Not Listening Turns Towards Divorce
- What Is Casual Sex? I Have No Experience with This…
- Rising Again from a Depressed Silence: Dating a Divorced Dad
- We Almost Lost the Ship
- Massive Action: The Return Journey Begins Now
- In Relationship with a Single Parent: Ground Rules
- Preparing to Disembark: Liftoff from Tranquillity Base
- The Deep Space Divorce Saga
- The Crew Must Survive
- Single Parent Moon Landing: Into the Sea of Tranquility
- My Little Rocket Ship of Hope and Love (Divorce as Space Travel)
- Love All Parents: The Single Parent’s Manifesto
- May I Fall In Love With You?
- Actions (Not Intentions) Will Determine How Long I’m Single
- Offline Dating: Setting Intentions and Actions in Real Life
- That Silence Says A Lot: What Are You Paying Attention To?
- Marriage Stories: “Another In a Long Series of Disappointments,” she Joked.
- Thriving After Divorce: 6 Lifehacks Along the Recovery Process
- How Do You Radiate? Becoming the Lover You Are Looking For
- Resetting Your Priorities in the New Year as a Single Parent
- Playful Dating Concepts with Tinder
- Planning for Drama-free Holidays as a Single Parent
- Getting Good At Blameless Breakups: Online Dating Challenges
- Giving Your Co-parent a Break: Think About the Kids, Not About Your Ex
- Loss of the Proximity Effect as a Divorced Dad
- Where Did Your Heart Go After We Got Married?
- Rebuilding Myself Into the Person I Was Before We Married
- Dear Daughter, We’ll Catch Up on Thursday
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- What’s One More Love Poem Worth?
- Why Online Dating is a Distraction and Not a Solution
- A Simple 6-Step Relationship Strategy: From Dating to a Relationship
- Hey Dad, Fancy Meeting You Here 20-years After Your Death
- The Song at the End of My Marriage – Radiohead’s “All I Need”
- Dads, Fathers, & Men: Single Dads Are Pro Family Too
- Unlocking Touch – The Love Language I Speak
- Burning Down the House of Love and Hope
- Holding Your Dream Together As Your Marriage Comes Apart
- Coming Full Circle: One Dad’s Divorce Recovery
- What I Learned From My First and Second Marriages
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- The Fascinating Sound of a New Lover
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- The Next 100 Coffee Filters: Don’t Be Hasty About Your Divorce
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- Continuing Forgiveness As a Single Parent
- i sing the body connected (poem)
- I Sing the Body Connected: Cultivating Sexual Energy
- The Fatherhood Wide Open Interview: Getting Real About Whole Parenting
- The Three Essential Elements of Love
- The Rest of Our Lives Loving the Same Person
- The Fading Passion of Monogamy
- At the End of Sex and the End of My Marriage
- Stop Texting Your Partner & Pick Up Your Love Life: Dating Lessons
- The Fracture of Divorce: My Dad’s Hand On My Head, Forever
- Happiness Dating and Joyful Coupling Post-Split
- What Men Think About Sex vs. What Women Think They Think About
- The Bittersweet Ballet of Single Dad Mornings
- Single Dad In Love, a Happy Story
- A Sprinter In Love, and How I Am Learning to Pace Myself
- Peaceful Easy Feeling: Looking for a Joyful Woman
- Get Healthy Before Dating: Avoiding Vengeance Dating
- Divorce Lessons: 8 Critical Choices In Making a Positive Split
- Nothing Is As Addictive As New Love, Right?
- Why I Lie(d) to My Wife
- What a Single Dad *Still* Wants in a Relationship (9-month update)
- A Different Side of Boyhood: Celebrating Divorced Families
- The New Dance of Anger: Men and Our Legacy (part 2)
- Men and Our Anger Issues: The New Dance of Anger (part 1)
- Dear Single Mom: Listen, I Was Your Son, I Get It
- Playdates for Adults: The 5 Challenging Tasks of Finding a Partner
- 5 Myths and 5 Truths About Online Dating Today
- Is It Love We’re After? Looking for a Long-term Relationship
- What Turns a Hot Marriage Cold? The One Word Answer.
- Super Judo Warrior Dad in Divorce
- Building the Perfect Lover: 13 Touch Points On the Path to Relationship
- The Money After Divorce Manifesto: A Neverending Story
- nothing but a poem to show for it
- We Have So Few Chances to Feel Loved: Online Dating Challenges
- Forgiveness (guest post by Michelle Roman Higgins)
- Prayer for All Single Parents, and Especially My Co-parent: Humans of Divorce
- Get Into Your Divorce, Because with Kids You’ll Never Get Over It
- The Dilemma of the Feeling Man: Stoic vs. Romantic
- time might change everything
- Does Poetry Matter? Be poetic. Love deeply. Keep going.
- Father, My Father: Forgiving My Dad and Myself
- Sexual Freedom After Divorce: Dating a Single Parent
- Sexual Desire: Chemistry Between Men and Women
- What “Responsible Separation” Means
- The Transformation of Love and Parenting in Marriage and Divorce
- Re-learning to Love In the Present Moment
- Positive Divorce: From Blame To Forgiveness
- Love Is An Ongoing Choice Not a Feeling: Reflecting On My Divorce
- Soft Boy to Sensitive Man: Redefining Masculinity
- My 50-year-old Body: A Love Hate Relationship
- Timing, Money, and Parenting Within the Standard Possession Order
- Foundation Troubles in a Marriage
- Dating, Sex & the Single Parent: The New Rules of Dating
- The Playboy Effect: Obsessed with Youth and Fitness
- Life + Crap + Time = Growth (guest post)
- Avoiding Holiday Depression: Notes from a Single Dad
- Durable Love: Forgiving Your Ex and Refinding Love
- Asking Men to Open Up and Be Vulnerable: Are You Ready?
- and they are gone
- Finding Balance In the Inequitable Life After Divorce
- Listening to the Little Man Inside, Healing Our Hearts
- Lean Into Anger: Healing My Father’s Fury
- Accounting for My Taste in Women
- What A Single Dad Wants In the *Next* Relationship
- All Available Light: Positive Parenting Energy Is Never Lost
- Putting Your Divorce in Context, For Yourself and the Kids
- The Cadence of Co-Parenting; Staying Close After Divorce
- Loving the Body: Size, Weight, Color, Age, Fitness, Happiness
- That Holiday Feeling After Divorce
- The New Father’s Day: My Day of the Week After Divorce
- Finding the Happy Side of Difficult Divorce Street – FLIP IT
- Moving from Parenting To Co-parenting: Joining Together In Divorce
- I Love You, Dad
- Co-parenting Is Not Always Easy, But We Have a Choice
- Pause and Reset After Divorce
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- A Return to Wholeness After Divorce
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