When your marriage is in trouble in a new city, you don’t know where to turn for comfort or assistance. Laws governing divorce differ around the world, but the necessity for you to know your rights crosses all borders. Infidelity abroad is frequent and is very often the man’s. According to Jeremy Morley, a British […]

There is so much info out on there on PARENTING, and so little about PARENTING abroad. You’d think those PARENTING gurus surely would have offered more words of wisdom for couples coping with the havoc created by transplanting a child into unfamiliar surroundings, and warned them about the impact this could have on their marriage.

In relocation, a couple’s SEX life is often the first casualty. A number of relocated couples don’t have SEX at all for different reasons. Anger, exhaustion, and a lack of communication all play a part. Sometimes there might have been a small problem before, and moving makes the problem grow.  Whatever compromises a couple comes

MONEY can be such a sore topic when moving abroad, especially with a partner. Some of the battles we had beforehand. I will never forget my partner putting a price tag on every item I wanted to ship abroad and coldly stating that my possessions were not worth the cost of shipping. I could actually

A move overseas for an accompanying partner can mean professional disruptions, identity crisis and loss of self-confidence when your CAREER is put on hold, and a power shift in your relationship to favor the primary earner.  After being overseas for over twenty years, I have realized that short-term it created an identity crisis and a

ISOLATION and its common companion, desolation, are usually felt most often in the early days after moving to a new place, but COVID restrictions have increased this feeling for practically everyone. While technology allows us to feel more connected and less alone when arriving somewhere new, it will not combat the ISOLATION felt by an

Everything that distinguishes you (career, community, friends, family) disappears when you move abroad for your partner’s job. While your partner sets out every morning into a strange new city to do a strange new job, you face endless days without structure. No one to call and nowhere to be. Seeds of RESENTMENT are sown as

THOUGHTS create feelings. Beliefs are THOUGHTS you think over and over. Beliefs create states of being. Thinking THOUGHTS that create confidence and believing them is a skill. Most beliefs are based on past experiences, which we just recycle for current circumstances. Familiar thinking is comfortable and predictable. We don’t even realize how much self-doubt and

What you think of yourself is what generates or depletes self-confidence. Confidence is a FEELING, and self-confidence is a FEELING about the self. All of our FEELINGS are going to come from our thinking, so the way we think about ourselves will determine whether or not we FEEL confident.  All humans are capable and amazing,

SELF–CONFIDENCE is an attitude about your skills and abilities. It means you accept and trust yourself and have a sense of control in your life. You know your strengths and weaknesses well, and have a positive view of yourself. You set realistic expectations and goals, communicate assertively, and can handle criticism. SELF-CONFIDENT people have no

Before I started my coaching business I did a ‘DARE of the Day’ for an entire month to get used to failure and being told ‘no’. I DARED myself to ask for a free glass of champagne at restaurants, to ask for a discount, or an upgrade, and to take risks in my personal and

Talking with several Mothers this month, they mentioned that they did not have a very good Mother’s Day. When I asked why not, I typically got various stories related to feeling as though their husband and children did not make a big enough fuss over them or they did not feel truly APPRECIATED.  In complete