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February is for Lovers: Collected LOVE Articles for Your Heart

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:February 1, 2022
Post category:Dating Health and Fitness humans of divorce Joy Love relationship building Relationships Self-care Sex Single-Dad Spirituality

What are some ways you can nurture your loving relationship every single day of this month? And then, continue next month. And forever.

Heading Into Love for Life OR Intoxicated by My Own Desire

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:January 28, 2022
Post category:Co-Parenting Dating Divorce Health and Fitness humans of divorce Joy Love Married Life mindfulness relationship building Relationships Self-care Sex Single-Dad Spirituality

I am convinced that through active participation and a cooperative approach to love, I can establish and maintain a loving partnership on into my later years. To be walking on a beach somewhere, with my partner, and doting on our grandkids and our kids, together.

mindfulness < a new index of happiness and hope

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:January 17, 2022
Post category:Co-Parenting Dating Depression Divorce Drinking Health and Fitness humans of divorce Joy Love mindfulness Parenting relationship building Relationships Self-care Sex Single-Dad Spirituality

Today, you can stop fighting the monkeys in your mind. Today, you can befriend the entire circus. And as you gain mastery over the monkeys, turning your attention over and over again back towards the important goals in your life, guess what happens? You start making real progress.

You Are Here: Taking Stock of Your Perfect Moments

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:January 16, 2022
Post category:Anger Co-Parenting Depression Divorce Drinking Health and Fitness humans of divorce Joy Love Married Life mindfulness Parenting Self-care Single-Dad Spirituality

What do you need to cut the tether attaching you to this bag of these BULLSHIT-LIES you keep telling yourself? Write them down. Identify the "little black bastards" pulling you down.

Meet Your Lover at Their Passion: Relationships in the Dating-App-Era

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:January 13, 2022
Post category:Dating Health and Fitness Joy Love relationship building Relationships Self-care Sex Single-Dad

Join your partner in all the ways you can. Time together doing things you both love is time together IN LOVE. That's how it works.

Present Tense: Co-Parenting Disconnected

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:January 9, 2022
Post category:Anger Co-Parenting Depression Divorce Health and Fitness humans of divorce Parenting Self-care Single-Dad

Sure, you can lean into your kids' anger about the divorce. But your role as a parent is to help them separate their emotions from your emotions. Your anger has infused their entire lives.

Five Lessons About Dating a Single Parent: Racing into Love

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:January 8, 2022
Post category:Co-Parenting Dating Health and Fitness humans of divorce Joy Love Parenting relationship building Relationships Self-care Sex Single-Dad

Share your bed, but keep your own bedroom. That way there is no blurring of the boundaries while you are still trying to figure out the basics of the relationship.

My Transformational Divorce: The 4 Stages of Divorce Recovery

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:January 7, 2022
Post category:Anger Co-Parenting Dating Depression Divorce Health and Fitness humans of divorce Love mindfulness Money Parenting relationship building Relationships Self-care Sex Single-Dad Spirituality

Everything that happened from the moment my then-wife said she’d been to see a lawyer, has delivered me up to be healed in a way that would not have been possible had we stayed together.