Parenting Divorce

Blending Families responds to the need for a book that explores stepparenting by starting with the marriage as the central relationship in a new blended family unit. Just as you are better able to help your child in an airplane emergency if you put your oxygen mask on first, you are better able to blend two families if you take care of the marriage first.

Divorce is not just a legal process; it's a devastating emotional experience which all too often brings both parties to the ground. But it doesn't have to be so traumatic.... Author Charlotte Friedman is a former family law barrister who decided to move from the courtroom to the therapist's chair in order to transform the way we handle divorce. In her view, the system sets both parties up for a fight, forced as they are to face lawyers, forms and life-defining court negotiations when they are also brimming over with grief and anger.

Todo cambia cuando un divorcio irrumpe en nuestras vidas: las emociones, las relaciones de familia y sociales, la estabilidad económica, la seguridad personal e incluso las cuestiones de tipo laboral son puestas a prueba. ¿Qué hacer ante esto? ¿Cómo asumir esta nueva etapa de la vida? A partir de su experiencia personal y de su aguda capacidad para analizar los conflictos cotidianos, Rosaura Rodríguez ofrece un valioso testimonio para ayudar a quienes atraviesan por estas dificultades.

Kate Reddy had it all: a nice home, two adorable kids, a good husband. Then her kids became teenagers (read: monsters). She's facing her 50th birthday; her mother and in-laws are in precarious health; and her husband is having a midlife crisis that leaves her desperate to restart her career after years away from the workplace. Kate is scrambling to keep all the balls in the air in a juggling act that an early review from the UK Express hailed as "sparkling, funny, and poignant...a triumphant return for Pearson."

High school teacher Emmi heads to the salsa club every week to escape her “adulting” life and get her dancing “fix”. But it’s more than just dancing that she is obsessed with. It is here that she meets Santiago, a charming man with a killer smile, whom she falls recklessly in love with. They begin an unclear and confusing entanglement where passion runs high each time they break up and get back together—over and over again.

Congratulations. You are going through a divorce with a narcissist. Let’s start this again.... Congratulations. You are attempting court negotiations with an extroverted child.

Divorce was everything for Haley Mlotek. As a child, she listened to her twice-divorced grandmother tell stories about her “husbands.” As a pre-teen, she answered the phones for her mother’s mediation and marriage counseling practice and typed out the paperwork for couples in the process of leaving each other. She grew up with the sense that divorce was an outcome to both resist and desire. But when she herself went on to marry—and then divorce—the man she had been with for twelve years, suddenly, she had to reconsider her generation’s inherited understanding of the institution.

Un rompimiento amoroso es, al fin y al cabo, una especie de operación quirúrgica mayor. Si dedicas tiempo a la recuperación puedes sanar por completo y ponerte en circulación de nuevo. Pero ¿Sabes cómo hacerlo? Este audiolibro te invita a atravesar el duelo, a vencer la soledad, a crear redes de apoyo, a incursionar en nuevas relaciones eróticas y amorosas para, finalmente elegir un nuevo camino personal.

A step-by-step guide to healing, releasing, and ultimately thriving. When you walked down the aisle and said, “I do,” did you ever think you’d be saying, “I don’t”? During a difficult divorce, author Lori Anderson set out on a quest for healing. Having witnessed too many victims of divorce, who were stuck in a rut and living only half a life, she sought something better for herself. In Divorce with Grace, Anderson share her experience and hard won insights, guiding you through the steps of GRACE, she discovered.

With The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law, Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis delivers a gripping, unvarnished first-person account of family breakdown and the social, political, and legal forces that are fueling this national health emergency. It further exposes and condemns a gender bias that presumes that fathers are less effective caregivers. Part memoir, part meditation, and part manifesto, it’s a timely and heartrending portrait of perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of the American legal system.

Lo que me cansa y me preocupa de mi relación, ¿mejorará o empeorará con el tiempo? ¿Y si mejoran las cosas y yo me precipito a romper? Pero ¿qué pasará si empeora esta situación? Si terminamos, ¿mi futuro será mejor o peor de lo que estoy viviendo? Si continúo con mi pareja, ¿podré lograr más bienestar y satisfacción? En ocasiones, muchas de estas preguntas crean en nuestra mente un ciclo de indecisión repleto de dudas y desazón. Por eso, ¿Me quedo o me voy? nos traza un camino que podemos seguir para confirmar lo que deseamos y necesitamos de nosotros y de nuestra pareja.

Research suggests when a couple separates, children suffer the most, as they’re typically shuttled back and forth between two different homes. When Beth Behrendt and her husband divorced, she found a better way: She gave her children custody of the home, while she and her husband moved around. After successfully implementing more than six years of what’s known as “nesting,” Behrendt has created a step-by-step guide for divorcing parents to introduce the practice in their own families.

Have you ever stumbled or fumbled to find the right words to repair or enhance any desired connection with another? Whether it be a lover, spouse, partner, someone you have a crush on, or a family member, friend, former spouse or partner, a long-lost or estranged relationship, or if you just want to attract more love into your life, this book Relationshift can truly help.

Leaving a toxic relationship is complicated. It becomes even more confusing when children are involved. One minute, you might feel relieved and empowered; the next, you wonder if you're doing the right thing. Don't worry—you are not alone. Author Olivia Clarke, a survivor of abuse and trauma with a background in psychology, offers you the insights and practical tools she's gathered to help you establish boundaries after separation and create a parenting plan and a nurturing space for your child.

Have you ever wondered how you can go from being so deeply in love with your partner to finding yourself miserable in your relationship? What happened? This book sheds light on that question and the human dilemma around relationships. Linda and George Pransky, PhD have been married for forty-five years and found their way out of their own troubled relationship.

Over the years, you willingly pour everything you have into your family, but in the process, you lose the essence of who you are. In her characteristic raw and visceral style, Rachel teaches you how to rewrite the pages of your story, follow your passion, and discover the beauty of who you are. Drawing on lessons from her own incredible journey - together with insight from conversations with thousands of other women - Rachel encourages moms to break cycles, take off masks, and prevent fear from taking control.

With Exposing Financial Abuse: When Money Is a Weapon, you will be given the opportunity to pull the curtain back and see into the lives of those who have been financially harmed by someone close to them. Being able to take a closer look at this hidden world is a unique gift that cannot be taken lightly or without honor for those who have chosen to allow us to peek into the most personal aspects of their lives.

Some seasons of life can seem inordinately more difficult than one human should ever have to endure. For Brandi Wilson, this was the year when her husband of more than twenty years—and a megachurch pastor—walked away from her and her family, her church community dissolved, and her dreams and identity were shattered. Yet God transformed this heartbreaking, overwhelming year into an invaluable lesson on the gift of healing. Here Brandi vulnerably and beautifully tells her story of confronting grief and heartache head-on and learning how to grow from the pain.

Co-parenting occurs after a divorce when both parents continue to jointly participate in their children’s upbringing. Co-parenting will require a great amount of interaction between both parents. You must be fully committed to maintaining civility and setting aside your differences with your co-parent for the greater good of your children in order to have a healthy co-parenting relationship.

As her marriage collapses, the author of the international best-seller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight relearns the fearless ways of her father to find her own true north. Standing in the wreckage of her marriage, in her adopted country America, Alexandra Fuller revisits the continent she loves and finds in her father's harsh, simple, and uncompromising ways the key to her salvation.