Grandparents and Divorce

telling your parents about your divorce

By Jennifer Safian / September 11, 2013

There is much thought given to how to tell the children about a divorce, but what about telling the parents? For many couples, telling the parents is probably the most stressful conversation next to telling their children. One would think that most parents would be supportive of their children and “rally to the occasion” but…

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are we forgetting about the in-laws? part 2

By Jennifer Safian / January 31, 2013

Part 2: Dealing with your former in-laws after your divorce: In Part 1, we talked about how parents and in-laws may be affected by their children’s divorce and some things you can do to maintain a positive and open communication with them post-divorce. In part 2, we are going to look at how your divorce…

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are we forgetting about the in-laws? part 1

By Jennifer Safian / January 17, 2013

In thinking about parents and in-laws caught in the midst of their children’s divorce, the issue can be looked at from the point of view of the couple getting divorced as well as from the point of view of their parents and in-laws. The impact of divorce on parents and in-laws is often disregarded and…

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