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10 Ways To Help Your Kids Cope With Your Divorce [EXPERT]
You and your children will get through the heartache together.

10 Ways To Help Your Kids Cope With Your Divorce [EXPERT]

When you and your spouse split, you and your kids must work together.

Divorce is not easy for anyone, and it can be especially difficult for children. Kids experience the acute scrambling of their world, while their parents wrestle with their complex emotions. With both parents in distress, or one parent suddenly missing, family love is torn asunder, and the children often experience confusion, terror, pain, anger and grief.

10 Signs Your Marriage May Be Headed In Divorce

10 Signs Your Marriage May Be Headed In Divorce

Read these 10 tell tale signs to tell if your marriage is heading in the wrong direction.

1. Lack of communication - One of the biggest challenges most couples face is poor communication or lack of communication. If one or both partners in the relationship do not communicate their challenges and concerns, this is usually a sign that you're heading down the wrong path.

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A little "harmless flirting" could lead to a much bigger affair.

How Does An Affair Start? [EXPERT]

In his mind he is flattered, he thinks it's fun and exciting, and he knows it's a bit naughty!

Men are pretty unconscious about what makes them attractive. According to most women, it is not their looks that make them attractive, it is who they are and how they produce in the world. So...this married man goes to work and comes home and goes back to work the next day. At work there is a woman. She is single, attractive, smart, capable, speaks his language and someone who has time to pay attention to him. It starts as an innocent flirtation. What goes through his mind is something like "Let's see if I still have it!", so he starts flirting just to see what happens. Not a surprise, she responds by flirting back. This is the beginning of the affair.

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Your relationships with your parents have a huge impact on your love life.

Did You Know That Divorced Parents Can Ruin Your Love Life?

Unhappy families lead to more unhappy families -- but you can put a stop to it.

When I was a sophomore in college, I started seeing a counselor re: my daddy issues. Up until that first appointment, I had been making it a point to only get involved with guys who made it easy for me to control the situation — so that they wouldn't up and leave me the way my dad left my mom and I when they got divorced. I thought, "If my own father can hurt me, you will, too."

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Details Of White House Crashers Michaele & Tareq Salahi's Breakup

Their eight-year marriage ended when Michaele ran off with Journey's guitarist Neal Schon.

White House party crasher Michaele Salahi has reportedly left her husband for a rock star. The Daily Beast's Diane Dimond, who spent countless hours inside the couple's home, on why she's not surprised.