Handling the Holidays During Divorce Our society begins celebrating the ‘joyful’ holiday season immediately after Halloween and straight through New Year’s Eve. The message is clear, no matter your cultural or religious beliefs, ‘tis the season to be jolly’. For those of us attempting to handle the holidays during divorce, it can feel like a […]
By Tamara D. Afifi at TEDxUCSB When considering divorce or going through a divorce, a very important question that comes up is how the divorce affects their children. There has been a lot of research on the relationships of children in adulthood, and what kinds of relationships they tend to have as adults. […]
By Lisa Brick While divorce does not determine whether your children will suffer negative long term effects of your family’s fracturing, the way in which you interact with your spouse while you are divorcing will. You have the power to make your children’s experience of divorce a more or less neutral, healthy or unhealthy event […]
Guest post by Mandy Walker of SinceMyDivorce.com. I generally don’t like reading articles about divorce studies: often they don’t seem to reflect what I’m hearing in my interviews. Admittedly I haven’t come across any studies yet on the quality of parenting after divorce – but there’s always the cry from the “stay married” advocates […]
...preaching, moralizing or “parenting” comments can put up barriers to clear communication. Listening is your most valuable skill and tool. Families that keep feelings repressed, that don’t discuss issues that come up, send the message that it’s not all right to talk about things that bother us. The consequences of this can be seen in...
