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It’s no secret that marriage rates are on the decline. In 1960, 72% of Americans were married. Today, 50% are. Understandably, there’s a lot of fear and trepidation about marriage. Since the divorce rate has hovered around 50% for decades, the question for many is,...
By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW It may seem obvious to some, but not all, that the best relationships are ones born out of trust and vulnerability. Each partner approaches one another as an equal. The relationship does not drain its participants: instead it nourishes....
By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Many daughters of divorce, like Diana, have a fear of commitment. She just can’t see a relationship working out, but she desperately wants one. Diana is a successful, educated young woman, but relationships have been her Achilles heel....
TIME Magazine published an interesting article in its March 5, 2012 issue, titled “Just Not the Marrying Kind” by Rich Lowry. In it, Lowry details that today more than half of all births to women under age 30 are out of the wedlock. He suggests that the decline of...
By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Before a woman can begin to build successful relationships, she must have healthy self-esteem. The way you feel about yourself today is directly related to how you felt about yourself as a child. If your parents’ divorce left you with a...
The most commonly quoted statistic about marriage is that 50% of marriages end in divorce. For the past several decades, the divorce rate has hovered around that rate, never exactly on target. It’s become more popular recently to challenge the statistic that 1 in...
By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Learning to trust is one of the biggest challenges for women who have endured the divorce experience. As a child, your parents’ breakup taught you that relationships are fragile and doomed to fail. Because of your past experience, you...
By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Infidelity is all too common and when it occurs it raises many questions. Should you stay? Can trust be rebuilt? Of all of the real-life stories of women interviewed for my research, Penny’s story best illustrates the searing pain of...
By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Since you are reading this blog, it’s likely that you have been touched by divorce – either because of your parents’ breakup or because of your own divorce. Either way, it’s important to realize that you can have successful long-lasting...
Any good financial planner will tell you it’s important to have money in your own name. You should know what your assets and liabilities are, maintain an emergency fund, and prepare for the worst. But do some women who grew up in divorced homes take it too far?...
Daughters of Divorce
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