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Rodeos, Anger, and Adult Children of Divorce

I’ve attended my first rodeo! For you urbanites and millennials, a rodeo is like an old country fair on steroids. A country fair is an annual event where far...

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When Mothers Leave – What the Research Shows

What is the impact on the children when the mother is the non-custodial parent after the divorce? This question was raised at a presentation I gave on Father...

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“Getting Over It” vs. Not Letting It Control Us

While sharing about a parental-divorce-related struggle, my friend said, maybe it’s time to just get over it. After my initial unspoken, “that’s easy for you...

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Are Adult Children of Divorce Doomed to Failing Relationships?

No. However, many issues work against our success that need to be addressed if we are to avoid the negative ACD statistics column. But what are the problem a...

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Primal Loss Through the Eyes of ACD

If you could ask adult children of divorce questions about the impact of their parents’ divorce, what would you ask? More important, how would they answer? L...

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Will You Roll the Stone Away? – A Sunday Snippet

On that first Easter morning when the women found the stone rolled away, the tomb of Jesus was empty. He had risen as He said, and crushed the sin which sepa...

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How Did You Try to Save Your Parents’ Marriage?

Think about that for a moment. Research shows many adults with divorced parents secretly blame themselves for their parents’ divorce. However, we often skip ...

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There are No Gray Shades Here: Sexual Wounds and the ACOD

Where can you go if you struggle with sexual guilt, addiction, confusion, hurt, or shame? Research shows that adult children of divorce (ACOD) begin sexual a...

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“Love Triangle” and the Gift of Grieving Togetherness

I don’t move in country music circles so I’m late to the party when it comes to the song “Love Triangle” by Raelynn. The song gives voice to a childhood pers...

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Good News for Adults with Divorced Parents

Though adults with divorced parents are up to 200% more likely to divorce than their peers from intact families, * two books offer us good news. One is The...

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What do ACOD’s Think About Life, Marriage, and God?

Here is a powerful video by researcher and ACOD, Elizabeth Marquardt. She wrote “Between Two Worlds” and whether you are “religious” or not, Marquardt offers...

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The Truth Will Set You Free

We began this series by challenging ourselves to see which adult children of divorce group we belong to (See Four Types of ACD). Then we questioned if we rea...

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Do You Want to be Healed?

My last blog looked at four types of adult child of divorce. For those in the Deluded, Denied, and Determined camps the next question is: Do you want to be h...

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Four Types of Adult Children of Divorce

When people ask me what I do it goes like this: “I help adults with divorced parents overcome some of the lingering issues from the divorce, like anger and u...

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Could Our Parents’ Divorce Be a Good Thing?

A number of recent articles by adult children of divorce say “Yes,” their parents’ split was a good thing. I also received an email implying that there are a...

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Overcoming Regret

My mother would say, “Idle time is the Devil’s workshop.” This basically means bored (and unsupervised) people do bad things. While this principle applies to...

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Closet Prodigals Who Ran Away From Home

For kids, parental divorce often creates a desire to escape from it. Our brains think, As soon as I’m old enough, I’m out of here. Though research shows many...

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Would “Bird’s Nest” Parenting Have Helped you Better Cope With Your Parents’ Divorce?

With “Bird’s Nest” * parenting, during visitation, instead of the kids bouncing from one parent’s house to the other, the grownups take turns living in the...

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Filling the Hole in Your Heart

A hole is created in our hearts when our parents divorce. Each hole is unique. Mine was losing the specialness I felt in my relationship with my dad. Though ...

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“I’m Over My Parents’ Divorce!”

One of the questions I’m often asked is, “What can I do with my spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend who don’t think their parents’ divorce is affecting them? It’s so...

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