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Holiday Horrors for Adult Children of Divorce – A Toolkit of Options

Holiday Horrors for Adult Children of Divorce – A Toolkit of Options

By Jill Edelman . 12/10/2018

There should be no shame in divorce. After all, it is a challenge to sustain a marriage through a lifetime. And the circumstances of each uncoupling is unique to the coupling pair. Yet the wake of pain can follow the players throughout a lifetime, with a residue that impacts children, grandchildren, new marriages and families […]

Holiday Toolkit 2011: Divorced: Now What To Do With The Ex-Laws?

Holiday Toolkit 2011: Divorced: Now What To Do With The Ex-Laws?

By Jill Edelman . 12/07/2011

While this post isn’t specifically about the holidays, it is all about family relationships and dealing with the “ex-laws” after a divorce – which always shows up as a major factor during holiday season.  So we are adding it to the Holiday Toolkit in the hopes that it may just help you survive the most […]

Holiday Toolkit 2011: The Divorce Survival ToolKit for Children of All Ages

Holiday Toolkit 2011: The Divorce Survival ToolKit for Children of All Ages

By Jill Edelman . 11/17/2011

Holidays are stressful times for The Coupledom. Here is another post about divorce and the holidays from the Holiday Toolkit. Today’s post from the Holiday Toolkit: Excerpt: Adult children of divorce as well as their younger counterparts struggle with the new regime, the confusing order of things and benefit from a language and vocabulary that […]

The Narcissist’s Stocking Stuffer: A Coupledom Alert

The Narcissist’s Stocking Stuffer: A Coupledom Alert

By Jill Edelman . 11/11/2011

Holidays Coming: How many days to Thanksgiving? To Hanukkah? To Christmas? To Kwanzaa? To New Year’s Eve? Enough to create a big fat Coupledom mess. What are the holidays known for in my profession? Opportunity for families to become combustible, leaving memories scorched with flames. Why? Holidays provide fertile ground for narcissistic orgies rich in […]

Oldies but Goodies:  The Divorce Survival ToolKit for Children of All Ages

Oldies but Goodies: The Divorce Survival ToolKit for Children of All Ages

By Jill Edelman . 10/29/2011

Jill is taking a break from the blog this weekend and keeping her fingers crossed that the October nor’easter doesn’t leave southern Connecticut without power…again. Here is one of her most popular posts from the past year or so. Excerpt: Weddings, baptisms, bat and bar mitzvahs, graduations, Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Xmas, often summon up painful emotions […]

The Affair: A Symptom of Marriage Rot or A Rotten Spouse?

The Affair: A Symptom of Marriage Rot or A Rotten Spouse?

By Jill Edelman . 10/28/2011

Affairs Come In Colors: Not all infidelities look alike. The red-hot mega-media adulteries are not the prototype for most unfaithful Coupledoms. The shades of color for the common household variety of betrayal are in grays, not black, white or red-hot. Yet folks on either side of the betrayal highway feel more comfortable thinking in black, […]

The Divorced Coupledom: Milestones Celebrated In Court

The Divorced Coupledom: Milestones Celebrated In Court

By Jill Edelman . 09/06/2011

Back To Court: Several times a year, whether I am in session with a patient, or bumping into friends, acquaintances or former patients in the aisles of the local supermarkets, the phrase “He/She is taking me back to court,” is whispered to me in tones of distress, anger, irony or weariness. Weariness often more than anything laces […]

What Are The Daughters Thinking? DSK, Schwarzenegger, Clinton

What Are The Daughters Thinking? DSK, Schwarzenegger, Clinton

By Jill Edelman . 07/14/2011

Imagine: Can anyone imagine DSK’s lunch with his daughter 17 minutes after he left the Sofitel Hotel and his encounter with a hotel housekeeper? Whatever that moment was in the Sofitel, DSK shifted to dad mode within minutes of being “someone else.” His daughter Camille is a 25-year-old Columbia University graduate student. After her dad’s […]

The Divorce Survival ToolKit for Children of All Ages

The Divorce Survival ToolKit for Children of All Ages

By Jill Edelman . 12/10/2010

Children of All Ages: For any age group, the ramifications of separation and divorce are felt most acutely at holiday time. Adult children of divorce as well as their younger counterparts struggle with the new regime, the confusing order of things and benefit from a language and vocabulary that empowers them. Locating their boundaries and […]

Divorced: Now What To Do With The Ex-Laws?

Divorced: Now What To Do With The Ex-Laws?

By Jill Edelman . 10/27/2010

Former Mother/Father in Law: Step Children and Step Grand Children: Ex Brothers and  Sisters In Law, Ex Nieces and Nephews: Divorce is the highest stress factor in our culture. Breaking up The Coupledom, the  family and the household, is excruciating. And then there is the mess it leaves behind in the hearts, minds and pocket books […]

 

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