It can be difficult sometimes to know how you can support a family member going through divorce. And if you’re the one who is going through the separation, it can also be hard to ask for the help you need. I was especially dreading telling my mom, but I...
I’ve been working with separated and divorcing parents for a really long time (like 20+ years long). During the span of my career, there’s not much that catches me off guard. However, when I asked a young woman who was an adult child of divorce,...
When I’m with a group of people, I often hear from them about a “friend” in trouble in their marriage. Nearly universally, they tell me why they would be better off getting a divorce. When I ask why, they said things like, “They are a jerk,” “They cheat,” “They don’t...
It was 9:00 am on a Wednesday as I sat in an office I had become way too familiar with. I was in my second year of my divorce mediation. As I sat across from my soon to be former husband, I did not recognize the man that I once knew and I’m sure he would have said the...
Conflict management techniques are not something we learned as well as maybe we could have when we were young. There’s a great quote by leadership expert and author Linda Lambert that I love. It goes, “One good conversation can shift the direction of change forever.”...
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