Reflections on my Dad's Funeral
My father’s memorial service has passed. It was a wonderful time of honoring him and God. He was a Christian, father, grandfather,...
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The Loyalty Challenge: Who Do You Love More?
The good news is a growing number of articles and resources are helping parents divorce in ways that minimize the effect on their children.
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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