The End of a Marriage: How To Prepare For Divorce
Even in the best-case scenario, going through a divorce is unlikely to be an enjoyable experience.
Should You Stay Married? Or Consider A Divorce?
If you’re stuck in that emotional limbo, you’re not alone.
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The Consequences of a Divorce That People Don’t Really Talk About
People often focus on the legal, financial, and emotional implications, but there are other consequences.
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How To Find Love Again After Divorce
Many people go on to find better, healthier relationships after divorce.
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4 Rules For Approaching A Divorce
Divorce is one of those really tough situations in life, but statistically speaking it’s one that around half of married couples will go through.
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How To Best Face The Challenges Of A Divorce As A Woman
Physical and mental stress is unavoidable during such traumatic times.
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What To Expect During The Divorce Process
Most people do not know what to expect during the divorce process
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3 Important Lessons You Can Learn From A Failed Marriage
A failed marriage can be a painful experience for all parties involved, including you, your spouse, and your children.
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6 Key Questions To Ask Yourself Before Starting Your Divorce Proceedings
Going through a divorce is a painful and stressful time. However, it is common knowledge that almost 50% of marriages end this way.
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Reclaiming Yourself After Divorce – Simple Steps That Work
When moving past divorce, we notice that we begin to look at a life that is once again open and unpredictable.
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The Do’s & Don’ts Of Going Through A Divorce
Getting divorced is an emotional struggle, it can put a strain on both your physical and mental health.
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Tips for a Successful Divorce
The following tips and strategies will help you reduce stress and make the process smoother for both yourself and your spouse
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Managing A Divorce As Well As Possible
Nobody wants to get divorced, but when it happens it usually means that it is the right thing to happen – and in truth, you might find that you are somewhat relieved when it does.
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Learning To Be At Peace With Yourself After Divorce
The words “peace” and “divorce” do not appear to go hand in hand. But when you are getting divorced and you are going through the trials and tribulations of emotional turmoil, financial difficulty…
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Single Dad? Here Are 7 Strategies To Boost Your Child Custody Case
Are you a single dad and looking to claim sole custody of your child? If that is the case, this blog post is for you. You have likely realized you have quite a journey to complete when it comes to child custody.
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How Can You Make Divorce Easier?
You don’t necessarily need to succumb to the convention, which says it should be a journey through hell. So how can you make it a less arduous process? We take a look at a few ways below.
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Reconciliation: Does It Work?
You may be living in a different place and going through some pretty tough emotions. But just because you’re separated doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the end of the marriage. You might want to try reconciliation.
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The Real Victims In A Case Of Divorce
Who exactly loses out the most when a couple splits up, though? To give you an idea of the impact this sort of decision can make, this post will be exploring the victims it will leave behind.
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Ask Yourself These Questions Before Starting The Divorce Process
Ask Yourself These Questions Before Starting The Divorce Process It’s important not to rush into the divorce process. Ending a marriage should not be taken lightly, as there are consequences for you, your partner, and your children. Divorce is a stressful and life-changing event, and while it may […]
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It’s Time to Change the Way Marriage and Divorce Work
It all started with a humorous Facebook post I made recently about my fear of marriage. I was taking my usual Saturday walk-about in Manhattan when I turned the corner on 42nd street…
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It’s Time to Change the Way Marriage Works
Making marriage a 2-year renewable deal will ensure that no one gets stuck in a bad place and will make both parties know that they must perform – be good spouses or the arrangement will end.
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How to Make $200,000 in a Single Step
There’s a very simple way to put $200,000 in your bank account: Don’t get married.
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When I Realized It Was Okay to Be a Dad and Stopped Trying to Be a Mom
When I Realized It Was Okay to Be a Dad and Stopped Trying to Be a Mom It was 1997 and it was time for me to figure out how to take charge of this unimaginable situation I was in. I was the primary – correction, sole and […]
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It’s Time to Change the Way Marriage Works
Is marriage a failed institution? My answer is that the way we engage (pun intended) in marriage now, it is a failure.
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E4: Marriage – A failed institution or something every adult should hope for? – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood
Marriage – A failed institution or something every adult should hope for?
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The Man-Up Project Episode 9: You Can be a Great Dad while fighting PTSD!
In this podcast, we have a dad calling in who is suffering from PTSD while going through a divorce. Not an easy scenario, but can he get full custody and keep a good relationship with his kids?
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The Man-Up Project Episode 8: How to be a Good Father when Your Kids Challenge You?
In this podcast, I am talking with a dad who is going through some rough time. We talk about how to stay – can we stay? – A good father when our kids challenge us greatly. And what’s the take home message? The love of a child by a father can transcend everything.
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Treat Your Wife Better in Divorce Than When Together
A message to men going through a divorce: Start treating your wife better now than you treated her when you were together. You have to start thinking smart and that is the thing you have to do to win your divorce.
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The Man-Up Project Episode 7: Why It’s Better to Date a Single Dad?
Because they have learned to love others more than themselves. In this podcast I discuss why dating a single parent is the best thing you can wish for and why having a child is not negative but something you should be proud of.
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The Man-Up Project Episode 6: The Stories of 3 Single Dads
I discuss the stories of 3 single dads I interviewed recently for The Man UP Project TV Show. Their stories illustrate lessons I have been speaking about that are instructional for any man or woman who would consider a relationship, marriage, having children or divorce.
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The Man-Up Project Episode 2: If You Could Travel Back in Time, What Would You Change?
Thinking back to troubled periods in my life, I recall having daily thoughts of wanting to travel back in time to fix things or make different decisions. So let’s say I could go back in time and relive only one day. What day would it be and what would I do differently?
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10 Tips for Men to Survive a Divorce
So you are thinking about getting divorced or maybe you are going through one right now? What you will likely discover is that divorce for a man, is as painful as childbirth is for a women – except the excruciating pain of divorce can last for years, decades or a lifetime.
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I’m a Man Who Likes Taking Selfies
Over the past few years I have taken hundreds of selfies and posted them all over my social media. The discussion about the narcissistic nature of folks who take selfies has made its way out of the psychiatric community and is now somewhat commonplace. And therefore, I have been called…
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What You Can Assume About That Divorced Dad
Going through a divorce can be one of the most traumatic experiences anyone can have. For men in particular, there is little support available and many men feel emasculated if they seek help. I had no one that I could ask for guidance, and I didn’t even know where to look.
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Travel Back in Time… Here’s What I Would Change
Imagine if we could travel back in time. Thinking back to troubled periods in my life, I recall having daily thoughts of wanting to travel back in time. So let’s say I could go back in time and relive only one day. What day would it be and what would I do differently?
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I’m an Empty Nester: Has My Role as a Dad Changed?
I remember looking at them back then and imagining a future when all of them had graduated from college. They would all be on their own, financially independent, married and with children. I thought of them scattered across the country…
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10 Habits to Find Happiness and Success After Divorce
I was determined to follow a different path and not allow history to repeat itself – for the third time. I had 13 years and a lot more life experience under my belt, which gave me the strength and wisdom to develop these 10 habits to direct me to happiness and success after divorce:
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My Ungranted Wish: I’m Glad It Didn’t Come True
It’s hard to believe that a whole year has passed since they were married last December in Israel. I recall sitting on the 10 hour flight reminiscing about what happened over the past 19 years of caring for her and her 4 siblings as a single and sole parent.
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A Dad’s 12 Wishes for the New Year
I have spent the last 19 years raising my kids by myself, which has taught me more than I could ever possibly write about what is really important. So in the holiday spirit, I share the 12 things I wish for this coming year.
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7 Reasons Why It’s Better to Date Single Dads
I had gone through the divorce from hell but I still hoped to find that elusive and special woman that I could spend the rest of my life with. I hadn’t dated in over twelve years, but with a lot more life experience and little more confidence, I thought I would have a relatively easy time at it.
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5 Scientific Ways to Live a Happier & Healthier Life
It was late 1996 and my marriage and family life I dreamt of was ending. My wife of 8 years and mother of our 5 small children was gone. The emotional strain of it all caused me to let myself go and I weighed on the wrong side of 300lbs. I felt undesirable, and I feared I may be alone forever.
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7 Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Being a Man
When I was little boy growing up in the New Jersey suburbs, my idea of a what it took to be a man was formed by the stereotypes I watched in the movies and on TV. I wanted to be a combination of Dirty Harry, James Bond (Sean Connery only) and the Fonz.
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My 6-Step Solution to End Gun Violence
I despise that innocent men, women, and children are losing their lives to this kind of mass gun violence in theaters, churches and schools. I despise that our second amendment rights are are justly being questioned, as most civilized folk are desperate to stop the cycle of gun crimes.
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My 10 Secrets to Making It Work After Divorce
It was late 1996 and my marriage and family life I dreamt of was ending. My wife of 8 years and mother of our 5 small children was gone. Our children had borne the brunt of this. The next few years of my life were filled with court dates, forensic accountants and custody evaluators.
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4 Freedoms I Wish For This Independence Day
Give me liberty or give me a hot dog and a beer. It’s good to have an option. In the heat of roaring BBQ’s and deafening sounds and bright flashes from fireworks, it’s easy to forget what the 4th of July is all about – An independence hard fought and earned that started from a dream.
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Can Tragedy Lead You to Greatness?
What happened on 9/11 was an unparalleled tragedy. The new Freedom Tower, 9/11 memorial, and entire project are unparalleled greatness… so the question that came to my mind was whether this level of greatness is possible without an equal level of tragedy.
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The Difference Between Great Leadership and Great Parenting
There’s no shortage of articles out there about what it takes to make a great leader and plenty of articles on what it takes to be a great parent. And maybe not that many folks who have figured out how to be great at either.
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Can Anyone Take the Place of Your Dad?
Celebrating mom is as American as apple pie and it has been for the past 101 years since Woodrow Wilson proclaimed mother’s day a national holiday. I remember the joy I felt when I would bring my mom breakfast in bed, flowers, a present and a hand-made card on mother’s day.
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Can a Father Be a Role Model for His Daughters?
I couldn’t be a role model to my girls for the way to be a successful woman – or could I? – I finally just (a tad nervously) asked each of my daughters. What is the one thing they have learned from me in my examples that helps them be a successful woman today? And here’s what they said:
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50 Shades of Grey – Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
I expected there wouldn’t be a lot of men in the audience and I was right. But what I didn’t imagine was that the audience would be mostly young girls – well under the ‘R’ rated age of 17 you needed to even get in.
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Nationwide Super Bowl Ad is NOT On Our Side
I think it’s fair to say most of us were shocked when we saw the Nationwide 2015 Super Bowl Commercial, “Make Safe Happen.” It’s pretty risky business to have a child in an ad who speaks about missing out on the best moments of his life because he died in a preventable accident.
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I Got the Wedding of My Dreams
My oldest daughter Michelle got married two weeks ago at a scenic venue overlooking Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean Sea. I know destination weddings are now trendy, but that had little to do with the choice to have the wedding there…
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I Was Sitting at the Bar When the Rabbi Said to Me…
No, it’s not the beginning of a joke. Yes that really happened. This past fall I was sitting at the bar of a Manhattan restaurant next to my friend, Adam Jacobs, who is a Rabbi at Aish Center, New York. We were having a cold beverage to celebrate the premiere of his documentary.
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Does Being a Parent Make You a Better Marketer?
The urgency I felt when my own children were suffering, unproductive and unhappy was greater than keeping my own job. This was a real creative problem unlike anything I knew before because the solutions are not linear. I had significant problems occur every day. They had to be solved.
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No Friggin Way I’m Taking Them to Chuck E. Cheese
I got my get-out-of-jail-free card by just following the advice of the famous philosopher, Nike: “Just do it.” I couldn’t quit my job. There was no one else to do it, so I just put my head down and worked my ass off all over the place. I needed to be a dad, and dads do things with children that are perfectly good and are perfectly acceptable to me.
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Another Day, Another Birthday – 27th Edition
I wish I had the experience and wisdom then I have now because I would not have been in such mortal fear for Michelle and my failure as her Father. God knows his work and Michelle is in many ways, most like me (despite her frequent denials) of all my children.
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A Happy 22nd Birthday Tribute to My Daughter (and me too!)
My middle daughter Rebecca is twenty two (22) years old today. I find it difficult to fathom that I actually have a daughter in her twenties. But fact is, I have three daughters and two sons. So today, while she is roaming around Manhattan with her younger sister, I reflect…
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Chronic Parent Syndrome and Multitasking on Steroids
One of the personality traits that successful parents develop is the ability to multitask. I don’t mean the normal kind of multitasking that one does at work where you complete an expense report while on the phone with the copier salesperson. I mean the kind of “multitasking on steroids” that allows you to handle multiple children at varying age levels, while having little sleep for extended periods of time.
