Archive | September, 2011

Weekend Sunrise Interview – Dating After Divorce in a City of Sluts

Below is a clip from an interview I did on Morning Sunrise, Australia‘s #1 Breakfast talk show.  It is their equivalent of the Today Show or so I am told.  They interviewed me based on my Huffington Blog post “Dating After Divorce in a City of Sluts” The link to the article is here.  It […]

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Dating After Divorce – Wife Shoppers & Baby Momma Math

I always thought I would have kids, my husband and I planned to eventually have a family, but at the age of 36 I discovered my husband was a closeted homosexual.  My marriage immediately ended and I entered the dating pool past my prime reproductive years.   I knew it would eventually take time to have […]

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High School Bullies – It Gets Better

So I am shutting down another blog of mine and I am moving some of my favorite articles over to this one.  The original date for this post is Oct. 15, 2010  And in honor of my 20th high school reunion which was last night, and I did not attend, I thought it was perfect […]

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Why I just can’t get over it and be happy — Depression is an illness

This post is originally from July 2010.  I am moving this from my other blog.  It got tremendous feedback and I am sad that I can’t move the comments over as well, but I am very proud of this post.  And I do believe that depression is a mental illness and should be treated as […]

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Life After Divorce: Some Basics I try to remind myself of every day

This is a blog post from another blog that I used to write, that due to confusion with this blog I am shutting down and moving my better articles over here.  So I was sort of acting as impromptu counselor for a friend who is facing a separation/divorce.  And I will repeat what I have […]

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Why I am No Longer a Catholic

My family’s Catholic faith dominated every aspect of my childhood.  My mother was so devoted she would drag her four children to holidays that were no longer Holy days of obligation after the reforms of Vatican II.  My favorite obscure Catholic holiday was the holy day of St. Blaise.  We would kneel before the priest […]

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Life After Divorced: Being a straight spouse two years later.

I still remember my wedding day, vividly.   Any day planned and fretted about for months is going to stick in your brain for a lifetime.  Any day built up as the beginning of the rest of your life will burn into your psyche, in the same way horrible trauma sears its pain and anguish deep […]

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9-11 Ten years later, what I remember

The more time passes, the fuzzier my memory gets.   A linear storyline dissolves into fragments composed of images, sounds, smells and feelings disjointed yet still burned into my psyche.  Living through it I thought I would never forget every little detail of the disaster, but as I struggle to write this piece I find […]

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Dating After Divorce – Do we really need Tough Love?

So since I have been divorced I have tried a number of methods to try to date again, including online dating and speed dating, I recently got the following via email…I won’t mention the company who sent it.  I have edited it for length, but the general premise is still there. Ever gone on a […]

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City of Sluts the Aftermath

So this whole thing has been insane. If you haven’t yet read the original blog post here is the link. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/juliet-jeske/dating-after-divorce-in-a_b_944133.html#comments I had been writing this blog for a while and it was slowly but surely becoming more and more popular. On the advice of a friend, I decided to take my most popular post […]

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