Finding Love Would Mean Letting Go of Who I Am

Finding Love Would Mean Letting Go of Who I A...

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I'll Still Be Your Financial Partner, But I'm Done Being Your Wife

After a nearly forty-year relationship, they've decided to split. But given the many laws in America that favor married couples, they've decided to try an unconventional arrangement: living 300 miles apart but remaining legally married. They come to Esther wondering how, after de ...  Show more

Twice Married, To Each Other

This is a classic session of Where Should We Begin? They were married, divorced, and then married again. And with four kids between them, tensions run high. They fight about everything: the chores, the cats, who gets to tell who what to do. They come into the session with one sto ...  Show more

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