Dating Tips for the Divorced Woman

In the old days the fairy tales always spoke of "happily ever after." Quite possibly you thought you had captured a bit of this fairy tale happiness for yourself when you said "I do" before God and men and were united in marriage with your husband. Fast forward a few years or even decades, and you suddenly find yourself referring to your spouse as the "soon to be ex-husband." You may have already filed the paperwork that will put an end to a relationship that began with so much promise. Perhaps you are already a few steps further ahead and all the court battles have been fought, the custody has been decided, the property divided, and you are now just waiting for the magistrate's signature on your divorce decree to make the end of your marriage official. Are you ready to start dating again?

If you may believe the example set by celebrities across the globe, then marriages are so disposable that the second the married couple announces their intention to divorce, they are already beginning new dating relationships. The odds are pretty good that you will not want to follow into their footsteps. After all, the one thing most of these celebrities have in common is the fact that they go from marriage to marriage, never finding the happiness they were looking for. To this end, here are some dating tips for the divorced woman:

Focus on making friends before looking for lovers. You probably lost quite a bit of your circle of friends in the aftermath of your divorce, and it is important that you build it back up. Additionally, this will permit you to truly get to know someone slowly and carefully before plunging back into dating.

While you do not need to wear your divorce decree around your neck and let everyone and anyone know that you have already been around the block once, it is something that should at some point come up in your dating relationship. While it will have no bearing on your new love relationships, it will prevent some tense moments when you and your date run into your ex-husband at the local Dairy Queen.