Children
Children in a hard divorce learn to be diplomats. Some are recruited as soldiers. How do you stay their parent when they are being asked to choose?
Children
What Do You Say When Your Child Takes Sides?
A sentence that is not hers, in the car on a Saturday morning. Five things not to do, and why you must not disappear.
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When Is It Actually Over?
The decree ends the marriage and leaves the pattern in place. On being neither too close nor too cold.
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