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One of the most difficult aspects of going through a divorce is all the uncertainty, especially around finances. It's really hard to make plans when you have no idea where the pieces are going to land. Will you be able to afford to stay in the home? Will you have to move? Will you have to change jobs or go back to work? Will the kids have to change schools? Will you have enough to retire? Will you be able to continue to save for retirement, college or emergency savings

These are some quick and dirty sketches I did as part of a divorce comic I was working on during my own divorce. I was making light of a dark situation because it felt better to laugh about how ridiculous things that my divorced friends and I experienced than to cry about them. In the end we did both. The original intent was that a superhero would come and save the day in each situation. This is the point where I got stuck. The comic stopped being funny to me and I aband

When I was going through my divorce years ago I picked sketching back up to help me cope. At first I started creating ridiculous comic book style characters to poke fun at all the ridiculous scenarios I personally experienced as well as stories others had shared with me. It was funny for a while, a silly kind of gallows humor with over the top villains and heroes who step in when an ex is behaving in a ridiculous manner. As the divorce dragged on, things escalated, I was w

Or am I over reacting? Chances are that if you're questioning whether or not you're experiencing abuse, you probably are. People in healthy relationships don't feel the need to ask this question. Abuse is when someone consistently and frequently chooses to attempt to control another person rather than control themselves. This control can be exerted through various ways, manipulation, coercion, threats of violence, abandonment or actual physical violence. This control can