Today on the “Why Divorce” show: Meet Couples Financial Coach Adam Kol

A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, author, "Why Divorce: 5 Reasons to Leave" — Welcome to today’s episode of the Why Divorce Show — a podcast and video show dedicated based on my book project that is on a mission to helping people understand the 5 reasons to leave a marriage, and when to stay. The published book is coming soon. In the meantime, we are collecting case studies of the 5 reasons (abuse, adultery, addiction, abandonment, and angst) and interviewing experts on topics that will help traverse the process of divorce. read more...

A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, author, Why Divorce — Hello, and welcome to today's episode of the "Why Divorce" Show, where we interview experts who are here to help us through one of the most challenging transitions in our lives.

Today's guest: Realtor Adrienne Green, who specializes in helping women buy their first home.

About Adrienne: This truly amazing woman started her career working in the financial investment world after graduating from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in Business Administration in 2007. She performed financial analysis and accounting for mutual funds at Western Asset Management in Pasadena, California. read more...

Rachel L. Virk has been in practice since 1989 litigating, negotiating, collaborating, and mediating divorce cases throughout Northern Virginia. She is Certified as a Mediator by the Virginia Supreme Court at the Circuit Court Family level, and is a trained collaborative law practitioner and author of Four Ways of Divorce.

Whether sitting down to work it out, or standing up to fight it out, she provides information to help shape and control your new future, and to control the costs in her book, provides a concise guide to what you need to know about divorce using Litigation, Negotiation, Collaboration and Mediation. read more...

An Introduction to Why Divorce: 5 Reasons to Leave

By Hope Katz Gibbs

I love my husband. I always will. But on Thanksgiving 2005, I knew I couldn’t stay married to him. We’d wed 10 years earlier, and for the next decade, I struggled long and hard with a single burning question: Why Divorce?

What happened that night is not as important as the fact that for the first time in our marriage I saw with pained eyes that we loved differently, played differently, and looked at the world through very different lenses. Rather than our unique perspectives bringing us closer, it became increasingly clear that we were living separate lives. Had our two kids, two freelance careers and a five-bedroom house in the suburbs snuffed out the passion that once bonded us? If so, could I live without the true love I longed for — for the rest of my life? read more...

How could I possibly have gone on more than 100 first dates — without meeting someone that I wanted to have a relationship with?

As I said in Part 1 of this podcast, on date 108, I met my match.

I found his profile on April 5, 2016 and reached out to him in a short email that said, “Oh, I think we’d really like each other.” In all of my experiences, I rarely wrote first; but there was something about his bio that was so much like my own; I felt I knew him. read more...