🔥 Episode 79: Show Up Anyway: How to Navigate Your Ex and His New Partner at Family Events After Divorce

Better Because of Divorce · Apr 30, 2026 · 21m

One of the hardest situations divorced women face is showing up to a family event — a wedding, a graduation, a birthday party — when your ex is going to be there with his new girlfriend, fiancée or wife. The anxiety starts before you even walk in the door. And for many women, the answer is simply: don't go.

But avoidance isn't healing.

In this episode of Better Because of Divorce, host and certified divorce life coach Julie Steed shares a raw, personal story from a recent family wedding and breaks down exactly how she navigated it with her dignity, her grace, and her sense of self fully…