The benefits of a healthy, thriving relationship may not be nearly as exciting as watching your career take off, but both aspects… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
That's part of what a relationship is: you don't experience things in the same way. — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
Everybody's got baggage, and not just the classic, 'Oh I have so much baggage,' but everyone comes with so much context, and… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
Some divorcees turn their pain inward. They brood, and they grieve for a long time, always wondering if they could have done… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
People get married for a wide array of reasons and have all sorts of expectations of how marriage will change the relationship.… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
Ghosts of Marriages Past can haunt many aspects of a new relationship - your expectations of what a man should do, how… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
Sacrificing your relationship for your career sounds noble and romantic from the outside, but the reality is that it can create a… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
The period that directly follows the dissolution of a long term relationship is extremely volatile, with emotions running the gamut from misery… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
If you've experienced cheating in a new marriage, the real work is not obsessively combing through all the details of what happened,… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
A lot of people end up getting married more out of expectation than out of passion for each other, but if your… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
If you don't simply communicate with your spouse what household tasks you would like them to do, you are setting yourself up to be… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
In my professional and personal life, when I meet people who feel broken after a divorce, they can usually be divided into two categories:… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a magical potion that serves to amplify adoration, reduce deep-seated feelings of resentment, erase fears of commitment, or answer questions about… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
I had a tightly knit group of female friends in elementary school - we called ourselves the Sensational Six. — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become. — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
In high school, I decided that all of my female friends were stupid and traded them for guy friends. I loved horror movies and… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
No matter how you handle alcohol at your wedding, you will most likely be upsetting someone. — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
If you've had a marriage that ended because of a betrayal in trust on your spouse's behalf, the idea of trusting another person with… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
Cheating is very rarely about the actual act of being with another person. — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time. — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
