The Truth About Divorce

Whether it’s one or both people who want the marriage to end, those choosing to leave tend to be excited at first over what or who awaits. There may also be a sense of relief at the end of the stress, the subterfuge, the fighting.

Over and over again, I’ve seen people choosing divorce romanticize the split as much as, or more than, they ever romanticized their marriage! And we have family therapist Marilyn Wedge writing, in the March issue of Psychology Today, that “divorce doesn’t have to be damaging to children.” Of course, you can only buy such nonsense if you believe marriage itself isn’t important to the children.

In her top-10 list of dos and don’ts for divorcing parents, Wedge writes, among other things:

“Do renegotiate a healthy co-parenting relationship after divorce” and “Do get on the same page with your ex about all rules concerning the children — bedtime, homework, amount of screen time, curfew and so forth.”

Wake up.

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