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Beauty Queen (Part 2)

How I Got Through My Divorce

Posted on Thu, 06/07/2007 - 5:07pm

In this episode, Shirley Washington Lewis talks about the overwhelming self-doubt she experienced when she left her marriage. She weathered a tough, emotionally trying transition period but...


Beauty Queen (Part 1)

How I Got Through My Divorce

Posted on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 2:06pm
Shirley Washington holds six beauty titles and was a Miss Black America. Here, she talks about meeting her first husband, falling in love, getting married and having a baby. The marriage...

On Mediation

(part 3)

Posted on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 1:23pm
Here, attorney Rachel Fishman Green talks about why she became a divorce mediator, the benefits of mediation and the idea that there is a right and wrong way to break up.

The Hypochondriac

(part 2)

Posted on Tue, 05/08/2007 - 10:45am

The decision to leave a marriage is always hard and in Amy's case, it was no different. Amy realized that she had stifled parts of her personality for so long that she didn't know who she was...


The Hypochondriac

(part 1)

Posted on Tue, 04/24/2007 - 2:24pm

Amy met her husband in acting class, they started dating and then got married. In a story stranger than fiction, it turns out that Amy married a hypochondriac who wouldn't sleep with her until...


On Mediation

(a case study)

Posted on Tue, 04/24/2007 - 8:39am

Rachel Fishman Green, Esq. is an attorney with 13 years of experience as a private divorce and family mediator. For more information about her services, or to find out more about how mediation...


On Mediation

(part 2)

Posted on Sun, 04/15/2007 - 11:21am

Rachel Fishman Green, attorney and divorce mediator, discusses the mediation process which she says can take three- to five months from the separation agreement to the divorce being finalized....


On Mediation

(part 1)

Posted on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 2:28pm

Here, Rachel Fishman Green, an attorney and divorce mediator, discusses the high cost of litigation in divorce. Litigation, she says, is like "ritualized war" and your objective is to destroy your...


Amicable Separation

(part 2)

Posted on Sun, 03/25/2007 - 3:28pm

After Marie's divorce she got back into the dating scene. She wanted a man in her life and decided to put herself out there. Eventually, she reconnected with an old boyfriend who was also divorced...


Amicable Separation

(part 1)

Posted on Tue, 03/20/2007 - 4:07pm

If you harbor the hope of saving your marriage, you're not alone. Marie Starrantino tried to keep hope alive, going to counseling and planning fun activities with her husband but in the end,...