Divorce Happens

You Don't Owe Anyone a Reason For Your Decision Yet

Do you feel like you need an airtight, defensible reason before you're even allowed to think about divorce? In this solo episode, Olivia pushes back on that pressure and

Why Your Body Shakes The First Time You Say Divorce Out Loud

Why does your heart race, your hands shake, or your throat tighten the moment you finally say "I'm getting divorced" out loud? In this solo episode, Olivia breaks down th

You Signed Your Divorce Decree — But Do You Actually Know What's In It? Molly Rosenblum, Esq. explains!

There's a piece of paper that ends your marriage and quietly runs your life for years afterward — and almost nobody reads the whole thing. In this episode of Divorce Happ

Hey Olivia, why am I the villain for leaving an abusive marriage?

There's a particular kind of injustice that so many survivors know intimately: you're the one who finally said enough, and somehow you've become the villain of the story.

Hey Olivia, how do I prepare for mediation with an ex who fights me on everything?

Mediation is hard enough when both people are negotiating in good faith. It's a different animal entirely when you're walking into the room across from someone who seems

Hey Olivia, how do I survive watching my spouse date again while cohabitating?

There's a specific kind of heartbreak that doesn't have a name yet — the one where you're still doing his laundry in the same house while he giggles at his phone on the c

The Mediation Series, Part 4: Life After Divorce Mediation

You don’t walk out of a mediation session into a blank space — and yet almost nobody talks about what actually comes next. That’s the gap this episode of the divorce medi

The Mediation Series, Part 3: What It’s Actually Like to Be in Divorce Mediation

For most people, the inside of a mediation session is a total mystery — a closed door they’re about to walk through with no idea what’s on the other side. That’s exactly

The Mediation Series, Part 2: How to Prepare for Divorce Mediation

A mediator is not a magician. That single line, dropped early in this episode of Divorce Happens, sets the tone for one of the most genuinely useful conversations in the

The Mediation Series, Part 1: What Is Divorce Mediation, Really?

Most people going through a divorce have heard the word “mediation” — and almost none of them know what it actually means. That gap is exactly where this episode of Divor

Hey Olivia, I filed for divorce and now I'm drowning in grief—did I make a mistake?!

She planned it for months — saved up, found an apartment, rehearsed the speech. She was sure. And three weeks after filing, she’s crying in a Target parking lot, smelling

Hey Olivia, is it safe to talk about my divorce on social media while it's happening?

There’s a question sitting in almost every divorced person’s notes app at 1 a.m.: is it okay to post about this? For the listener who wrote in this week, the pull to shar

She Lost Everything in Her Divorce. Now She's a State Senator Fighting to Change the Law.

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from fighting a legal system that was never built to protect you — and North Carolina State Senator Woodson Bradley kno

A Divorce Coach's 5-Step Framework for Staying Grounded When Everything Feels Urgent

Divorce doesn't arrive with a checklist — it arrives like an avalanche. Your finances, your custody schedule, your identity, your future, all crashing down at once, and s

You Got Out. Your Kids Didn't. How to Survive the Guilt of Co-Parenting After Divorce

You did the hardest thing you've ever done — you left. And somehow, that's not where the guilt ends; for so many divorced moms, it's where a whole new kind of guilt begin

Hey Olivia, Why Do I Keep Having Sex Dreams About the Husband I'm Divorcing?

A listener wrote to me this week with a confession she was mortified to even type out: her marriage is over, she's made her decision, she doesn't even like the man her hu

Managing Triggering Communications & Reclaiming Your Power During Divorce with Family Mediator & Parenting Coordinator Laura Lorber

You know the feeling before you’ve even read the words. The phone buzzes, you see who it’s from, and your whole body braces — shoulders up, stomach tight, heart already p

Preparing Your Nervous System for Divorce: What No One Tells You Before You Walk Into That Room

Most people think divorce begins with paperwork. Leslie Mathews will tell you it actually begins in your nervous system. In this candid, deeply practical episode of Divor

The Happenstance: The Hidden Cost of Having a Husband

In this solo episode of Divorce Happens, Olivia reads a piece from her personal writing Substack, The Happenstance, called "The Hidden Cost of Having a Husband." It's a r

Co-Parenting Coaching After Divorce: Building the System That Keeps Your Kids Steady

What if the single biggest predictor of how your kids come through your divorce has almost nothing to do with the divorce itself? That's the question at the heart of this