The first in a series of where mental health and legal issues meet and how to co-parent with a manipulative, bullying, difficult person who wants to make your life miserable.

In this episode there are 4 questions about hooking up, dating, forgiveness, anger, getting over it, moving on, self-care and dating a drunk who wets himself and drives drunk. Lots of good advice on a variety of subjects.

Episode 11 is all about getting over it. What type of people don't get over it? How do you know - if you're doing the work - if you are over it? How many times do you get to "the end?" This episode tackles the idea of working through the end of a breakup. Many times you have to feel the feelings more than once, do the inventories, more than once, journal, do your self-care and make a decision to move on. This episode helps you figure that all out.

In this Episode 10, the topic is answering mail on resolving anger at narcissists when you're codependent, but this episode is for everyone getting out of a relationship whether it's with a narcissist or not. The episode tackles moving on, who owns what?, having boundaries, feeling anger and hurt, doing "the work" and finding closure and moving on, answers, "I only wanted to love him..." And other bizarre statements to get healing and healthy love on track and a possibility in the future.

In this episode we explore the idea of acting even when you are so afraid to do so. If you wait for the right time it is never going to happen. Every breakup, divorce, or separation involves feeling the fear and doing it anyway. In this episode, we take a walk down legal memory lane in the courthouse with restraining orders and talk about opportunity, fear, love, loss, relationships, and dating.  But most of all Feeling The Fear And Doing It Anyway

Listeners who think they were the bad actor in the relationship write in for advice on the breakup and moving on from heartache.

Growing up in dysfunction leaves us woefully unprepared for healthy adult relationships. Upon a breakup, separation or divorce, it's time to look at the unhealthy patterns of trying to recreate unwinnable childhood struggles in our adult relationships. The only way to win is not to play the game. A breakup affords us the opportunity to resolve these struggles once and for all instead of inviting partners - ill-equipped to love us - into our lives.

It's a Friday "Mail. We Get Mail" episode and we answer emails on trying to love someone who only wants passion, cheating when the other person is rethinking the affair and staying no-contact with a selfish twit who wants her shoes back. Breakups are fun and divorce is a blast. Not really but we try to take the sting out of separation, heartache and give you the ADVICE on relationships you need.

In this episode, the ML discusses guilt and regret which are useless except to inform future behavior. If you have guilt and regret and they are keeping you stuck, here is how to get out of it.

In this episode, host Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed., answers questions about relationships, breakups, closure, dating, cheating, wanting to know what happened, fidelity, new loves, difficult endings