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How will my divorce affect my child? A lot of parents out there are asking this question and unfortunately there’s a problem with the answer. The problem is that the ‘answer’ doesn’t really exist. The professionals don’t know. Two of the leading experts in the field, Judith Wallerstein and E. Mavis Hetherington seem to [...]
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I’ve got a few posts swimming through my head right now, but every time I sit down to write I come back to this. I never really meant this place to become a personal journal. I never wanted it to detail the day to day happenings of my life. But today this post must be [...]
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As a child of divorce I’ve lived my life with one enormous fear. The fear of not being wanted. It still haunts me. I’ve seen it haunt others. Like a monkey on our backs that lays dormant for a while but wakes up at the slightest hint of confirmation. I wish it wasn’t so. I [...]
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My husband is gone right now. Away on a camping/fishing trip that he takes every year. This trip is a highlight for him. Something he looks forward to literally from the time he returns home. He takes a few of these trips each year. A winter camping trip. An ‘open the cottage’ trip. He’s even [...]
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I’m fine, thanks. Don’t worry about me. I’m good… really. We’ve all said them. Those words that tell others that we are fine and thereby don’t need their sympathy, support, care or concern. Even when sometimes we do. Why is that? A fear of vulnerability? A need to always appear strong? Or maybe a sense [...]
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Spoiled by divorce? You’ve got to be kidding.
by Carolyn on May 17, 2010
The perception that children of divorce are spoiled simply as a result of being children of divorce amazes me. Do people really think that or is it just something they say without actually realizing what they are saying? Even one of my favorite bloggers, Avitable recently wrote in a post that children of divorce were [...]
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