Will my Divorce Affect my Children?

Submitted by: Mark Banschick M.D. This question undoubtedly wracks the minds and hearts of those contemplating, or going through, divorce. You want to know how the people you care most about —your children—will fare with a disrupted family. You wonder how they will cope when everything they know and trust changes. The answer is yes, [...]

Wondering How Your Kids Are Feeling About the Divorce? Take Them to a Movie and Find Out!

Submitted by: Mark Banschick M.D. Movies can be a wonderful way to connect to your kids as your family go through a divorce. The reason for this is because of a psychological relief called displacement. Let me explain. When you directly ask your kids how they feel about the divorce, it’s sometimes difficult for them [...]

Guidelines For a Smoother Divorce

Submitted by Shirley Cress Dudley 1- Keep contact to a minimum. One phone call a day is excessive, several text messages a day is extremely excessive.  If you have a subject related to the kids- speak briefly and clearly about your expectations.  Emails are better than phone calls, if your issue is not an emergency. [...]

Ask The Divorce Coach: Separated But Living Together

Question Dear Shelley: Overview: husband cheated, tried to make it work, husband stopped his counselling, blamed me for not having sex cause I could not get over the “other woman”, cheated again, now separated, living in the same house but separate rooms, one 14 -year- old daughter, husband is out every night getting his “happiness [...]

Children and Divorce: His, Mine and Ours

All along I felt that no matter what, these children were MINE.  I was a single parent in a marriage, he showed little interest in them aside from the pride that a father has in his sport-successful son, only he was she, our middle child and only daughter. She worked so hard for his approval, [...]

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