Adult Children of Divorce: How to Overcome the Legacy of Your Parents' Breakup and Enjoy Love, Trust, and Intimacy

Experts report that the divorce rate among children of divorced parents is fifty-seven percent, as opposed to only eleven percent for children of married parents. Your parents’ relationship greatly influences your core beliefs about marriage as an institution. With this guide, learn that the effects of divorce are neither permanent nor defining. Evaluate the level of dysfunction in your parents’ divorce and find ways to avoid the long-term conflicts that led to the breakdown of their marriage. Master healthy boundary-setting skills and communication techniques. Let go of guilt, pain, and anger; find out how to forgive your parents. Discover new ways to enrich your own relationships. Divorce experts and psychologists Jeffrey Zimmerman, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Thayer, Ph.D., provide the first ever step-by-step approach for adult children of divorce to undo the effects of their parents’ divorce and create faith in strong relationships. Readers are shown how to evaluate the level of dysfunction and animosity involved in their parents’ divorce, begin to piece together how the parents’ interaction created their own long-lasting core beliefs, and learn that there are alternative realities available.