From prenups to how to navigate blended families, understanding the complete landscape of marriage can help you deal with it’s challenges. Listen to today’s show to learn valuable tools to use before, during and even after marriage.

In this episode with Sabrina Shaheen Cronin, we discuss relationship advice topics that include:

• Important questions to ask yourself before getting married
• Why it’s critical to be happy and content with who you are before getting married
• How to communicate around that awkward conversation around prenuptial agreements
• Navigating second marriages, children and blended families
• How to allow expression of feelings from your kids and partners in blended families
• And much more!

Full article here: https://idopodcast.com/sabrina-shaheen-cronin/

Since every person and relationship is different, knowing how long it’ll take to get over a break up can vary—but the six months rule is a good rule of thumb, according to relationship expert Lauren Peacock, author of Female. Likes Cheese. Comes with Dog.: Stories About Divorce, Dating, and Saying “I Do” and the creator of The Divorce Case subscription box. 

“I try and go by the 6-month rule, which says that for most of us to fully heal, it usually takes around 6 months for every year we are with someone,” Peacock says. 

Full article here: https://parade.com/1185406/marynliles/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-over-a-breakup/

In some careers, social distancing isn’t an option. So, one business owner in Southern California has made some lifestyle sacrifices to continue doing what she has been doing for two decades.

Kathleen Sullivan used to work in sales. She said she was successful, but selling things to people “is not who I am,” Sullivan said.

After seeing a classified ad in a newspaper for people to help new parents and knowing that she’s always been maternal, she said she found her new calling and signed up.

“I am trained as a postpartum doula,” Sullivan said. “And I’m also trained as a baby nurse, which is now called a newborn care specialist.”

Her company is called Soft Slumbers. Sullivan said newborn care packages are about $500, depending on the baby’s age and that overnight care can cost about $40 per hour.

Full article here: https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/human-interest/2021/03/24/being-a-doula-amid-covid-19-with-social-distancing-protocols