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Divorce Will Change You Forever
Love requires us to dig deep foundations. You can’t just throw up a tent and call it a love affair.–By Serge BielankoLots of people handle divorce really well. Everybody’s case varies a little, but...
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Confessions Of A Neat Freak Dad
View image | gettyimages.comChildren are slobs by nature, so what do you do when your dad-nature is the opposite? ______By Serge BielankoI have a confession to make: I can’t stop straightening up...
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The 6 Best Things Things I Learned About Myself, Post Divorce
View image | gettyimages.comAcknowledging your own past is really the coolest way to embrace all that future coming your way. _______By Serge BielankoYou don’t always enter into monumental breakups...
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I’m a Single Parent, and It’s Breaking My Heart
Don’t tell Serge Bielanko that he has to move on. By Serge BielankoHe swoops in off the bedroom ceiling, a shape-shifting demon with a taste for my heart. The ghost of my past, the ghost of “what...
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To the Parents of Bullies
Is bullying inevitable? Serge Bielanko wonders what he would do if he found out his kid was the one causing trouble.By Serge BielankoSchool’s back in session and despite the excitement and promise of...
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Is Monogamy to Blame for All This Divorce?
Do you ever wonder whether the whole “one partner for everything for life” thing is to blame?By Serge BielankoFor just about every couple that you or I may know who are getting married, we likely know...
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When ‘I Hate You’ Means ‘I Love You’
Serge Bielanko is a divorced daddy with three kids, so he knows a lot about complicated emotions.By Serge BielankoOne day last week we were having a BBQ in my yard when my 4-year-old son Henry...
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I Was That Kid Who Dropped Out of College to Join a Rock Band
Serge Bielanko is a dad who still plays in a band… is he too old for this dream?By Serge BielankoI’m 43 years old and I play in a rock-n-roll band.I know that sounds kind of “mid-life crisis mode,”...
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Excuse me While I Don’t Celebrate ‘National Men Make Dinner Day’
BEHOLD: A MAN MAKING DINNER. Sometimes someone says something or does something so downright offensive you simply have to speak your mind.By Serge BielankoIt was recently brought to my attention that...
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The Struggle to Love a Man Who Doesn’t Love Himself
When you have low self-esteem and don’t love yourself, how can you expect anyone else to?By Serge Bielanko for YourTangoLife is a monumental pain in the ass. Yeah, sure, life is beautiful and...
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I’m the Only Dad Who Volunteers in My Daughter’s Classroom
Sometimes just showing up is an activist choice for a dad.By Serge BielankoThe moment she sees me step into her first grade classroom, her eyes light up and shine — and my heart explodes in my chest.I...
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I’m the Daddy I Never Had
Photo courtesy of the author, all rights reservedIt’s a realization that only comes once in a lifetime: this kid I am so in love with wants to be exactly like his father.By Serge BielankoHenry looks...
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A Divorced Dad’s Christmas Letter to His Kids
Photo courtesy of the author, all rights reservedMerry Christmas, you nuts.By Serge BielankoDear Violet, Henry, and Charlie,Oh my gosh! We made it! It’s Christmastime, you guys, and we made it! I can...
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Parenting In The Winter Is All About Surviving The Snot
I WANT TO SCREAM, “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SOMEBODY SHOVE 10 TISSUES UP THIS LITTLE GIRL’S NOSE!” But I don’t.___By Serge BielankoIt’s like The Walking Dead. But worse. There are maybe eight tiny kids...
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Why Intelligence ALWAYS Wins Over A Hot Body
Look hard for the bookshelves the next time you go home with someone.____“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!” – John WatersIt’s everywhere now and you can’t...
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I Walked Away From My Marriage, but the Loneliness is Killing Me
Embed from Getty ImagesIn the end, we’re always kind of alone, aren’t we?___By Serge BielankoI’d be a fool and a liar to sit here and write that I haven’t found the bright spots in separating from my...
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What It Really Feels Like To Be 42 Years Older Than Your Toddler
He’s either gonna be the death of me or the greatest accomplishment of my lifetime. ___By Serge BielankoHe’s flinging rice all over the place like he’s standing there outside some church as the bride...
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It Was an Impossible Choice, and it Destroyed My Marriage
By Serge BielankoPerspective is a slow train comin’. You can hope for it, wish for it, even try and force it to appear before your eyes, but none of that will work. You’ve got to be patient, that’s...
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Losing Someone Through Divorce Is Probably Every Bit As Painful As Death
Embed from Getty ImagesBy Serge Bielanko Divorce is as bad as death.That’s a bold claim, a ballsy one, and I know it. Me telling you that going through a divorce is in any way comparable to...
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The One Thing About Heartbreak That Almost Kills You
Embed from Getty ImagesHeartbreak, it turned out, was the only thing that was ever going to fix my broken heart.—By Serge BielankoI lost myself not that long ago. My marriage died; I couldn’t focus....
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