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By April Thompson, LMFT Imagine you’ve just made a string of three paper dolls and when you pull from both ends to see if it stays together. It indeed rips apart. But where does it rip, right down the middle, where the middle person is connected to either person on the ends? Now imagine this is your child, and either person on the end is yourself and your ex-partner.  This is … [Read more...] about Pulling from Both Ends

By Marvin L. Chapman, Ph.D Parenting is a major influence in the lives of children and adolescents. In an intact family, mothers and fathers take on separate and different roles–mother’s performing some tasks and father’s performing others. When a relationship dissolves, so may these separate roles. When the family reorganizes, the mother and father roles are many times also reorganized. What … [Read more...] about Fathers and Divorce Coaching

By Connie Hornyak Children whose parents are going through a divorce often feel responsible for their parents’ unhappiness.  They sometimes believe that they must have done something to cause the divorce.  As one child put it, ”I wish I could go to a new family so my Mom and Dad could be happy again”. Most children whose parents divorce find themselves torn in their … [Read more...] about The Best Interest of the Child

By Carol Hughes, Ph.D, LMFT How would it benefit your adult children to speak with a Child Specialist during your Collaborative Divorce Process?  How would it benefit you, their parents? Research indicates that divorce is life’s second highest stressor, second only to the death of a loved one.  If this is true, why is it so common for divorcing parents to assume that their adult … [Read more...] about Adult Children of Divorce

By Kim Johnson Just two sentences with a total of 12 words. A seemingly unemotional announcement, yet my life as I knew it completely dissolved within a matter of seconds. I had only just realized something was going on, confronting him three weeks prior to that fateful day. Yet, here I was freefalling into the black abyss of a separation that would end in divorce. As I struggled to regain my … [Read more...] about Coming Together to Come Apart

By Kristin McDaniel I never expected to be divorced, but when my husband of ten years told me he wanted a divorce on Christmas Eve, I had no say in the matter. I didn’t know what to do, and wondered how I would care for three young children alone. The first month I cried a lot and could barely get out of bed. I was in shock, broken-hearted, angry, depressed, and afraid all at the same time. If … [Read more...] about Recovering from the Pain of Divorce