Terry Radigan, 02/21/12

Singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist

I've have never been so grateful to have music in my life as I while was going through my breakup. Every song felt like a rung of a ladder and in the end, helped to lift me up and back out into the world.

Vicki Larson, 02/15/12

Journalist, mother, thinker

Whitney Houston's death Saturday was filled with tragedy. She leaves behind a daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, a promising young singer who at age 18 is way too young to lose a mother.

Margaret Klaw, 02/15/12

Family Law Attorney

I have relationships with lawyers I've faced as opponents over and over again; we have a shared history. The fact of our lives as lawyers is that clients come and go, but our relationships with each other can endure for decades.

Barbara Rose Brooker, 02/15/12

Author, The Viagra Diaries

I'm divorced, single and past sixty. Friends fix me up with their rejects, or at dinner parties I find myself sitting next to the newly divorced or widowed 80-year old boomer who wants to take me to Viagra Falls.

Katie Amatruda, 02/13/12

LMFT and Trauma Therapist

I feel assaulted whenever I encounter clichéd images of romance -- advertisements to buy flowers, candy, diamonds, sexy underwear, even cell phones -- all to show love. Buy, buy, buy! Love, love, love! I say Bah Humbug!

Richard Segal and Jason Marks, 02/13/12

For many, Valentine's is "D" Day -- Divorce Day! Hey honey, here is a box of heart chocolates, red roses, and a summons in which you have been served with a dissolution proceeding; certainly not an "Aphrodite" moment to commemorate Valentine's Day.

Robert Wallack, Esq., 02/10/12

Celebrity divorce lawyer

When you put two outsize egos together in one marriage, the combination can be combustible.

Emma Wilhelm, 02/09/12

Writer, publishing professional

In order to get divorced, I traveled back to the Midwestern college town where I'd lived for a year with my soon-to-be ex. I hadn't put down substantial roots there in a year's time, but I'd made some friends, including a nice couple from my church who let me stay with them for a few nights.

Laura Campbell, 02/06/12

Founder of The D Spot

When I got divorced, I remember saying to my mother, "This is not where I thought I would be at this stage of my life." I was sad when I said it, and stuck in the disappointment of my failed marriage. Divorce had definitely not been part of my life plan.

Pamela Georgette, MFT, ATR and Todd Sawyer, 02/09/12

Last November my ex came home for a month and wanted to remarry. After trying to reconcile and fix her, it was obvious she didn't love me; still wanted him, so I asked her to leave. It was hard for me, but harder for the kids.

David Wygant, 02/14/12

Dating and relationship coach, author

This is a season when there's supposed to be love in the air: a feeling of roses, boxes of chocolates, couples buying diamonds, and what not. But you know what it really feels like? Like divorce is in the air.

Barbara Rose Brooker, 02/06/12

Author, The Viagra Diaries

Friday evening, Herb arrives. He's one of those men who is ageless -- fit, with short-cropped silver hair, suspicious hazel eyes. He looks like Tony Bennett.

Melani Robinson, 01/26/12

Writer, mother, dog-lover, widow, yoga-doer, recent New Yorker

If he were dead the hurt would stop. I could systematically build him up -- make him better -- create a complex character who loved his daughters, but was incapable of showing it, and alas, tragically, time ran out.

Tammy Nelson, Ph.D., 02/06/12

Sex and relationship expert; Psychotherapist; Author; International speaker

We don't really know what happened in Heidi and Seal's marriage, and they deserve their privacy as they work through their separation. But we can surmise that one of two things happened: Their relationship fell apart because of trauma or neglect.

Monique Honaman, 02/01/12

Author, HuffPost Blogger

If sex isn't happening, then certainly the core concept of "making love" isn't happening either. Couples are losing the opportunity at all levels of physical touch to connect with their partner.

Agi Smith, 02/01/12

Freelance writer

My husband recently ended an affair, which I have known about for the past five months. I feel so shattered and confused. How can I ever trust him again?

Ora Nadrich, 02/01/12

Life Coach

I don't come from a divorced family so maybe I'll never understand it as well as people who do, but even when I was growing up, I don't ever recall as many people getting divorced as I hear about today.