Thursday, February 23, 2012

Having a Date After Divorce

Dating after divorce isn’t an enviable position to be in, but it can be the beginning of the rest of your life.

As you gain the strength required to get a divorce, whether you initiated it or not, what follows in your love life is really a choice that you have complete control over. It is said that people follow two paths. One is that they become reclusive and want to be left alone and the other is that they go absolutely crazy in the bar and dating scene. Both can be considered over reactions to the depth that divorce pulls your emotions. Let’s face it, divorce is painful, especially if you were really in love at one time.

Dating after divorce has no right or wrong answers. It’s about you. Are you healed? Are you ready? Do you need more time to design your life in the direction that your marriage wasn’t allowing it to go? It’s time to find yourself because a marriage gone bad allows you to lose who you are at every turn. Dating after divorce, at least right away, may not be the right answer if you find yourself in need of some soul searching.

One of the fastest ways to heal after divorce, instead of dwelling on the past, is to absolutely and unconditionally live in the moment. It’s time to take an account of family and friends. Things to be grateful for and to do those things you felt you couldn’t do before. The past is gone, done. The future is built by this moment and it will take care of itself if you take care of yourself.

If your over reaction to divorce is to become a wild child and go crazy dating, you’ll have lessons to learn and not all of them will be pleasant as you add more emotions to your already emotionally charged life. If you’re going to date after divorce, take your time. Ease into it. Get your mind and emotions right so you have your life structured the way you want and your vision of your future clear.

Everyone deals with dating after divorce differently. I took the more reclusive path and I found my soul mate as I left the past as a life lesson on this earthly plane. I was awakened to my path of training and motivating people instead of working and the law of attraction brought the most precious love of my life into view. Our souls spoke and the rest is history. All with very little dating and that was exactly the vision I had once I had healed and was ready to move on.

We’re creatures of emotion. We live to be loved. We need to feel needed by others. Yet no matter how difficult life gets with divorce as a very painful life lesson, it’s your life and your future and having that first date after divorce should be at the right time with the right person that unquestionably shares your new vision of your life.

Chris DeVincentis is a real estate entrepreneur that lives in the midwest in the country. As a Manager, trainer and motivator at a large real estate company his hobbies include meditation, exercise, golf, reading, writing & blogging, fishing and spending quality time with friends, family and his soul mate and true love Dawn. The Love website http://www.Talk-Romance.com/relationship-commitment/ is how he met his soulmate.

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