Dating again after a divorce or the death of your spouse can be difficult. Things are often complicated further if there are children involved. Jealousy and fears of not being special and loved can originate in any of the involved parties. Some people say that the children should just accept the reality that their parent also needs a relationship while others disagree with this approach. In this article I would like to explore these issues in more depth.

It is well known that many people experience alternating manic and depressive states. Those with very severe symptoms are called bipolar. Yet, there are many people who experience various degrees of depressive feelings; there are people who are predominantly manic; and there are those who swing from one to the other (bipolar).In this article I focus on people with depressive and manic personalities, even if they do not suffer from a full blown bipolar disorder. Nancy McWilliams writes extensively about these themes in her book “Psychoanalytic Diagnosis” and I will follow her line of thought.