Adult Children of Divorce: How to Overcome the Legacy of Your Parents' Break-up and Enjoy Love, Trust, and Intimacy
- ISBN-10
- 1608825957
- ISBN-13
- 9781608825950
- Series
- Adult Children of Divorce
- Category
- Family & Relationships
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-11-01
- Publisher
- New Harbinger Publications
- Authors
- Jeffrey Zimmerman, Elizabeth Thayer
Description
If your parents divorced when you were young, you were probably affected by the breakdown fo their marriage. Divided loyalties, secrets kept from the other parent, one life lived in two separate houses—these may have been par for the course. With this guide, you will learn that the effects of the divorce are not permanently harmful. Find out how to forgive your parents, discover new ways to enrich your own relationships and learn that there are alternative realities available. Divorce experts and psychologists Jeffrey Zimmerman, Ph.D., and Elizabeth S. Thayer Ph.D., show you how to recognize how your parents’ divorce influenced your life, resulting in disruptions such as relationship failures due to financial reasons, difficulties with commitment, and repeated situations that “just don’t seem to work out.” They provide techniques to help you understand and overcome these and other issues common to adult children of divorced parents. Zimmerman and Thayer focus on helping you learn how to build self-esteem, become resilient, establish healthy boundaries, communicate clearly, open up to trust, show love, believe in commitment and deal with vulnerable feelings.
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Other editions
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- 1992
- 347 pages
- Paperback
- Dell Publishing
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- 1990
- 215 pages
- Paperback
- Thomas Nelson Incorporated
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