The Thursday night Lacey Keigley fell asleep in a king-sized bed beside her husband for the last time, she had no actual idea it was the last time. Yet-it was.

This is the story of everything that came after.

Of finding joy amidst gut-wrenching pain. Of holding hope and grief in both hands. Of surviving the unsurvivable.

In Nevertheless: Essays On Divorce, Single Parenting & Hope, author Lacey Keigley bends her trademark wit and style to the uncommon commonalities of daily life in a new normal, flinging back the curtains and inviting readers to witness the chaos, blessings, burdens, and hilarity of her world.

At the heart of each lyrical essay is one harrowing question.

When life doesn't turn out as planned-what then?

An intimate and candid account of one of the most romantic and revolutionary of relationships: divorce

Divorce was everything for Haley Mlotek. As a child, she listened to her twice-divorced grandmother tell stories about her husbands. As a pre-teen, she answered the phones for her mother's mediation and marriage counseling practice and typed out the paperwork for couples in the process of leaving each other. She grew up with the sense that divorce was an outcome to both resist and desire, an ordeal that promised something better on the other side of something bad. But when she herself went on to marry--and then divorce--the man she had been with for twelve years, suddenly, she had to reconsider her generation's inherited understanding of the institution.

Deftly combining her personal story with wry, searching social and literary exploration, No Fault is a deeply felt and radiant account of 21st century divorce--the remarkably common and seemingly singular experience, and what it reveals about our society and our desires for family, love, and friendship. Mlotek asks profound questions about what divorce should be, who it is for, and why the institution of marriage maintains its power, all while charting a poignant and cathartic journey away from her own marriage towards an unknown future.

Brilliant, funny, and unflinchingly honest, No Fault is a kaleidoscopic look at marriage, secrets, ambitions, and what it means to love and live with uncertainty, betrayal, and hope.

A road map for complex divorce

Divorce can be devastating at any time, but the emotional and financial challenges are even greater for those who divorce later in life, with complicated issues of blended families, health care concerns, and retirement planning.

Attorney Janice Green gives you the benefit of her decades of experience as a divorce lawyer who specialized in counseling and fighting for clients over 50. She addresses:

• divorce options (including mediation and collaborative divorce)


• how to receive the best guidance from lawyers and professional advisers


• dividing marital property legally and fairly


• retirement plan rules


• alimony, and


• keeping good health care.

The book also includes divorce survival stories that illustrate your options and provide encouragement. They got through it, and with the help of Divorce After 50, you can, too.

And Then They Lived Happily...

We enter our romantic relationships with great love, hope, and excitement--we've found the 'one', so we plan and forge our futures together. But sometimes, for many different reasons, relationships come undone; they don't work out. Commonly, we view this as a personal failure, rather than an opportunity. And instead of honoring what we once meant to each other, we hoard bitterness and anger, stewing in shame and resentment. Sometimes even lashing out in destructive and hurtful ways, despite the fact that we're good people at heart. That's natural: we're almost biologically primed to respond this way.

Yet there is another path to the end of a relationship--one filled with mutual respect, kindness, and deep caring. Katherine Woodward Thomas, author of Calling in The One and creator of the groundbreaking method, Conscious Uncoupling, provides the valuable skills and tools for you to travel this challenging terrain with these five thoughtful and thought-provoking steps:
Step 1: Find Emotional Freedom
Step 2: Reclaim Your Power and Your Life
Step 3: Break the Pattern, Heal Your Heart
Step 4: Become a Love Alchemist
Step 5: Create Your Happy Even After Life

This paradigm-shifting guide will steer you away from a bitter end and toward a new life that's empowered and flourishing.

Hard-hitting divorce lawyer James J. Sexton shares his insights and wisdom to help you reverse-engineer a healthy, fulfilling romantic relationship with How to Stay in Love.

With two decades on the front lines of divorce Sexton has seen what makes formerly happy couples fall out of love and lose the plot of the story they were writing together. Now he reveals all of the what-not-to-dos for couples who want to build--and consistently work to preserve--a lasting, loving relationship. Sexton tells the unvarnished truth about love and marriage, diving straight into the most common issues that often arise from simple communication problems and relationships that develop by default instead of design.

Though he deals constantly with the heartbreak of others, he still believes in romance and the transformative power of love. This book is his opportunity to use what he has learned from the mistakes of his clients to help individuals and couples find and preserve lasting connection.

Previously published as If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late.

Ending a marriage is always difficult, but you don't have to be financially or emotionally overwhelmed. Through mediation or a collaborative divorce, you can avoid huge legal bills and debilitating conflict with your ex.

This book guides you through all the steps of negotiating a divorce settlement, using mediation or collaborative law.

Encouraging, straightforward, and inspiring, Divorce Without Court explains mediation and collaborative divorce and shows you how to:

• choose the right method for your family

• maximize opportunities for settlement

• get an agreement in writing

• find mediators, attorneys, and advisers, and

• protect your children first, last, and always.

Divorce Without Court provides information about mediation organizations, and clear examples of what you can expect in mediation or collaborative divorce.

With Downloadable forms: Get more than 20 forms, including mediation agreements, financial worksheets, and a negotiation checklist-- details inside.

This highly anticipated second edition of Splitting includes new chapters on abuse, alienation, and false allegations; as well as information about the four types of domestic violence, protective orders, and child custody disputes.

Are you divorcing someone who's making the process as difficult as possible? Are they sending you nasty emails, falsifying the truth, putting your children in the middle, abusing you, or abusing the system? Are they persuasive blamers, manipulating and fooling court personnel to get them on their side? If so, you need this book.

For more than ten years, Splitting has served as the ultimate guide for people divorcing a high conflict person, one who often has borderline or narcissistic (or even antisocial) personality disorder. Among other things, it has saved readers thousands of dollars, helped them keep custody of their children, and effectively guided them through a difficult legal and emotional process.

Written by a family law attorney and therapist, and the author of Stop Walking on Eggshells, Splitting is an essential legal and psychological guide for anyone divorcing a persuasive blamer: someone who suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD), narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), and/or antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). This second edition includes new information about antisocial personalities; expanded information about domestic violence, child abuse, alienation, and false allegations; how to approach protective orders and deal with child custody disputes; and a new chapter on how to successfully present your case to decision makers.

Turn to this guide to help you:

• Predict what your spouse may do or say in court
• Take control of your case with assertiveness and strategic thinking
• Choose a lawyer who understands your case
• Learn how e-mails and social networking can be used against you

If you need help navigating a high-conflict divorce from a manipulative spouse, this book includes all of the critical information you need to work through the process of divorce in an emotionally balanced, productive way.

It's over--and it really hurts. But as unbelievable as it may seem when you are in the throes of heartache, you can move past your breakup. Forget about trying to win your ex back. Forget about losing yourself and trying to make this person love you. Starting today, this breakup is the best time to change your life for the better, inside and out. Through her workshops and popular blog, Susan Elliott has helped thousands of people transform their love lives. Now in Getting Past Your Breakup, she'll help you put your energy back where it belongs--on you. Her plan includes:

• The rules of disengagement: how and why to go no contact with your ex
• How to work through grief, move past fear, and take back your life
• The secret to breaking the pattern of failed relationships
• What to do when you can't stop thinking about your ex, texting, calling, checking social networking sites, or driving by the house

It may not kill you, but in the thick of it, divorce can certainly test your will to live. Divorce is the death of a marriage, and as with any death, you'll need the time, space, and proper tools to grieve it, get through it, and move on.

Jill Coil, esq., has spent the last thirteen years guiding families through the process of divorce as a family law attorney. She knows the toll it can take, but she also recognizes the growth and positivity that divorce can stimulate when it's time for two people to part ways. In this book, Jill condenses her years of experience to help readers learn:

- When a marriage can be saved, and when it can't

- When and how to hire an attorney

- How to navigate the process with your family

- How to reclaim your self-worth outside of marriage

- How to forge a beautiful, better path after divorce

This practical yet deeply personal handbook will change your outlook on one of life's biggest obstacles and give you the advice and strategies you need to grow from the experience and flourish in your new future.

My relationship journey has had many ups and downs. I've had a marriage that ended in divorce, intimate relationships that led to my having children by multiple women, exchanges with friends that left me feeling drained and confused, and business partnerships that resulted in gridlock.

When I consider my relationships with family and friends, I've come to realize that sometimes those who are closest to you can hurt you the most.

And although one might think you should be able to turn to family for refuge or support, there are times family members are manipulative and, making it clear that just cause we kin, don't make us friends. At my rock bottom, I became very frustrated and so discontent that I knew it was time to have a conversation with the person in the mirror, realizing the common denominator in all of these relationships was ME. When we hear the word relationship, the first thing that comes to mind is romantic relationships. True enough, our relationship with our significant other gets most of our attention, time, and energy. What we don't realize is that every relationship in our lives - parental, familial, social, professional and others are affected by our first and most important relationship...the one we have with ourselves.

I'm excited to share my experiences good, bad, and indifferent in order to inspire change that starts with SELF. I hope to encourage you to take inventory of the things around you that you can control and not be controlled by the things around you. This means taking accountability for our choices, setting healthy boundaries, and giving ourselves permission to realign or redefine our WHY so that the outcomes line up more closely with our intentions. This is how to build a divine foundation of self that better serves us. Only then can we let our foundation lead the way and not allow people, situations, or circumstances to dictate our responses to life.

It all lends to our growth and is a part of the process. Loving the way God intends versus how we feel. This is how we build better families, better households, and better communities.

Navigating the stress in divorce is difficult enough, but in the middle of it, you are also expected to make critical financial decisions about your future. Your friends are telling you what you should do, your attorney is asking what you want to do, and you might not know what you need to do. To make good financial decisions, you also need to feel good about yourself! Your new financial life and your new outlook on life must work together.

In Women, Divorce, and Money, Taking Control of Your Finances and Your Future, CPA Dave Stolz shows you what to expect before, during, and after your divorce. He combines His experience of helping women with the financial aspects of divorce with stories from women who have been through it. This book is a combination of information and motivation. Information about the process of divorce and basic financial planning, and the motivation to power through all the stuff that is heading your way.

The difficult road of your divorce can lead to a beautiful destination, but it's not automatic. You need to make the best decisions for yourself during your divorce so that when it's over, you can focus on looking forward to your new life, and not backward at decisions that were made.

If you are a man who is divorced or separated, you know the heartache, loneliness, and sense of loss the end of a marriage can bring. Since 80% of divorces are filed by wives, chances are you know the shock of hearing that the woman you married wants to leave. Such a revelation can cause a downward spiral that few people are equipped to handle.

If this sounds like you, Daily Survival Guide for Divorced Men has both spiritual wisdom and practical, down-to-earth advice to help you through this intensely difficult time. Dale J. Brown, PhD, a husband and minister, found himself suddenly thrust into the pain of divorce. He knows the agony of not knowing how you'll pull through. His hard-earned knowledge is full of encouragement, reminders that your life is still brimming with possibility, and the hope that you can begin to thrive again.

Beautiful . . . Compelling . . . Cusk is] an extraordinary writer of the female experience. --Financial Times

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. She discovers previously unknown strengths and freedoms but also finds herself suddenly vulnerable to outsiders, unwelcome advice, social displacement, and the absence of a clear authority. The pressure to reconstruct a normal life for her daughters competes with the sense that nothing feels normal at all.

Aftermath is a classic: a masterly work in which the author, at her most ruthless and rigorous, charts the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos that is left when a family breaks apart.

Divorce is at once a widespread reality and a painful decision, so it is no surprise that this landmark study of its long-term effects should both spark debate and find a large audience.

In this compelling, thought-provoking book, Judith Wallerstein explains that, while children do learn to cope with divorce, it in fact takes its greatest toll in adulthood, when the sons and daughters of divorced parents embark on romantic relationships of their own. Wallerstein sensitively illustrates how children of divorce often feel that their relationships are doomed, seek to avoid conflict, and fear commitment. Failure in their loving relationships often seems to them preordained, even when things are going smoothly. As Wallerstein checks in on the adults she first encountered as youngsters more than twenty-five years ago, she finds that their experiences mesh with those of the millions of other children of divorce, who will find themselves on every page.

With more than 100,000 copies in print, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce spent three weeks on the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Denver Post bestseller lists. The book was also featured on two episodes of Oprah as well as on the front cover of Time and the New York Times Book Review.

When you made your marriage vows, you did not look down the road and see divorce in your future, yet here you are.

You may feel like your family and your dreams have been shattered. You may feel overwhelmed dealing with your emotions as well as your children's emotions. You may wonder how you will restore a sense of normalcy to life. There is hope for your family. God is in the business of rebuilding lives. God cares about your unique circumstances.

Author Aimee Claire Cooks has been where you are--divorced and raising two young sons as a single mom for many years. This book shares how to grow through your circumstances in a deeper relationship with God, how to be there for your children, and includes practical tips on how to parent as a single while rebuilding your family.

Most importantly, because each story is unique, the questions at the end of each chapter will help you process your own story.

Utilizing my conflicting truths and heartfelt inspirational reflections to heal and connect God's family

I wish to transform millions of lives: moving people from fear to faith and understanding, bringing healing, embracing, and allowing the love of self first.

This is a collection of the many emotions that I battled with for years, including while I was depressed and suffering from heartache, amongst other things. It is not meant for you to read this book as a chapter book, reading from cover to cover, chapter to chapter, from the beginning to the end. I purposely wrote it so that you could go directly to the table of contents and locate the chapter title that resonates with you and where you are in your journey in life right now. After you read over the titles of the chapters, you will know exactly where you need to begin your healing journey.

Your ex-spouse is bad mouthing you to your children, constantly portraying you in a negative light, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, your relationship with your children could suffer. You could lose their respect, lose their affections-even, in extreme cases, lose all contact with them. The conventional advice is to do nothing, that fighting fire with fire will only result in greater injury to the children. But after years of consulting parents who heeded such advice with no success, Dr. Richard Warshak is convinced that this approach is wrong. It doesn't work, and parents are left feeling helpless and hopeless. DIVORCE POISON instead offers a blueprint for effective response. In it, you will learn how to distinguish different types of criticism, how and why parents manipulate their children, how to detect these maneuvers, and how these practices damage children. Most importantly, you'll discover powerful strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with your children.

DIVORCE POISON is a time-tested work that gives parents powerful strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with their children-and provides practical advice from legal and mental-health professionals to help their clients and safeguard the welfare of children. Whether they are perpetrators of divorce poison, victims of it, or both, parents who heed Dr. Warshak's advice will enable their children to maintain love and respect for their parents-even if their parents no longer love and respect each other.

In print for thirty-five years, Rebuilding is the number one trusted resource on divorce recovery. Now, this classic self-help book is available in an updated fourth edition, featuring a new introduction by coauthor Robert Alberti.

If you are going through a painful breakup or divorce, you may feel like the life you once knew is crashing down around you. You need help to gather the pieces and rebuild yourself from the ground up. Rebuilding features Bruce Fisher's divorce process rebuilding blocks, a proven-effective, nineteen-step process for putting one's life back together after divorce.

Now the most widely-used approach to divorce recovery, the rebuilding model makes the process healthier and less traumatic for those who are divorcing or divorced--and their children. Over two decades of research and practice are combined with feedback from hundreds of thousands of men and women who have used the book on their own, or in one of thousands of Fisher divorce recovery seminars worldwide.

This book also includes Fisher's detailed Healing Separation model--the first of its kind to offer couples a healing alternative to the usual slide from separation to divorce. This fourth edition, revised with the assistance of psychologist and marriage and family therapist Robert Alberti, continues Bruce's tradition of straight-to-the-heart response to the needs of his clients and readers.

If you've been struggling to rebuild your life after a divorce, this book offers just the right balance of shoulder-to-cry-on and kick-in-the-pants self-help