Episode 135: Sex and Dating After Divorce with Laura Friedman Williams
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Laura Friedman Williams was a happily married, stay-at-home mom of three children. She had plans to grow old with her husband. Then she discovered her husband was having an affair and found herself single after 27-years. Faced with the choice to consider her life over or reinvent herself, she chose the latter. Today, she shares her explosive story of sex and dating after divorce.
Laura is the author of Available: A Memoir of Sex & Dating After a Marriage Ends. In her book, and during our conversation, she shows that it is possible to be independent, a good mother, and have a great sex life all at the same time.
Show Highlights
- Laura shares her story of her marriage ending - almost overnight. (10:49)
- When a marriage ends, "You think it's one thing and it never turns out to be that simple." (13:51)
- Laura was so focused on her children's healing, she came to a sudden realization that she could not continue to be who she was for her kids without taking care of herself. So, five months after her marriage ended, Laura decided to begin dating again. (22:05)
- Laura shares her first experience with sex for the first time after divorce, "I don't know how this is done. But I am going to make this happen." (25:27)
- Sex should not be a subject that is taboo or shameful. (39:22)
- What dating looks like for Laura three years after her divorce and why commitment is not something she desires. (45:33)
- Advice for women who are just getting back into sex and dating following divorce. (51:07)
Learn More About Laura:
LFW is the author of Available, which was a #1 bestseller in books on Divorce on Amazon, and has been featured in The Daily Mail. She has also written pieces for Vogue UK and Best Magazine in the UK.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:44.4 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:47.1 | Welcome back to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast. |
| 0:53.5 | So I have exciting news. I have been teasing on my website |
| 1:01.3 | for quite a while that I was creating a divorce program. And it is finally ready, y'all. Crazy Town. It was called the divorce course. It is now called |
| 1:15.5 | the divorce survival program. It is, oh my gosh, you guys, it is so good. And I say that because |
| 1:24.4 | I've been working on it for years and I'm fucking proud of it. |
| 1:35.1 | And if we can't do really hard work and then be proud of it and say that it's really good, |
| 1:38.0 | then whatever. |
| 1:39.2 | It's amazing. And I'm also joined by all of my special guests for this one. So basically this is |
| 1:48.3 | one stop shopping for how to do your divorce in the best possible way. This is, you know, scripts for how to talk to your kids, how to talk to your husband, |
| 2:05.2 | what you should tell friends and families, should you hire an attorney, what is the difference |
| 2:11.1 | between an attorney, you know, between mediation, litigation, collaborative divorce. We have sample custody schedules. We have |
| 2:21.4 | parenting plan examples. We have, I mean, all, I mean, you name it, it's in this course. |
| 2:29.7 | What do we do if we start getting along? Does that mean we should cancel the divorce? |
| 2:35.6 | How to have really healthy, strong communication in high conflict or low conflict. |
| 2:42.5 | We've got it covered. |
| 2:44.2 | We've got dating after divorce. |
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