Archive for the ‘ Divorce ’ Category
I’ve been through this process with many clients & it is not easy. First there is the jealousy that the new love may have something cool to offer your kids; like a swimming pool or they never seem to lose their temper. This is a very normal reaction because it’s hard to share your kids. [ READ MORE ]
In this movie we watch the sparkly beginnings of love disintegrate over time. Blue Valentine captures one of the saddest aspects of life. The camera shuttles back & forth between the lovely past & tragic present. It seems so authentic it’s painful to watch. Michelle Williams asks her grandmother “How can you trust your feelings [ READ MORE ]
It can be very confusing about whether or not to stay or leave a relationship. I remember being so surprised in 1981 when a man admitted to me he’d been sleeping on the couch for 25 years. I could easily imagine how unhappy his spine was. It was not the reason he sought counseling. Men [ READ MORE ]
Kids share their parents with new boyfriends & girlfriends, parents share their kids with their ex’s new lovers, and kids learn to have new stepsisters and stepbrothers. It’s all a very complicated business that is often not done very well. There are too many assumptions about how easy this is all supposed to work. This [ READ MORE ]
Working with several divorced families recently made me seriously consider this question. It’s obvious that divorce is difficult for children because their whole world collapses. Often the imprint of divorce leaves major trust issues. It is ordinary for an adolescent with divorced parents to say “I’ll never get married.” Yet there has to be more [ READ MORE ]
Clearly, relief from becoming divorced is not enough because so many people fall into the trap of continuing the habit of ugliness. It’s as if all the broken dreams, false expectations and harbored resentments have Miracle-Gro added to the mix. Danny DeVito plays a lawyer in the movie The War of the Roses. He recommends [ READ MORE ]
Letting go of someone you’ve loved can be exquisitely hard to do for many people. If you’ve been taken by surprise, if you’ve been misleading yourself about how they feel or if you’ve been lied to, full recovery can seem just out of reach. It’s so human to torture yourself wondering what happened, is there [ READ MORE ]
It is a sad truth that fifty percent of marriages end up in divorce. Women are the ones who leave. Seventy five percent of divorce is initiated by women. There are so many reasons a relationship will end. One person gets a DUI and the other partner has to face the ugly truth. One person [ READ MORE ]
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