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Adult Children of Divorce

How to Overcome the Legacy of Your Parents' Break-up and Enjoy Love, Trust, and Intimacy

by Elizabeth Thayer and Jeffrey Zimmerman

Published by: New Harbinger Publications

Imprint: New Harbinger Publications

176 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

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9781572243361
Published: November 2003

$16.95

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9781608825950
Published: November 2003

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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.

Jeffrey Zimmerman, Ph.D., is President and Cofounder of Beacon Behavioral Services LLC (Avon, CT) and the P.E.A.C.E. Program (Parents Equally Allied to Co-Parent Effectively), which is a specialized service for high-conflict divorcing parents. He is also coauthor of The Co-Parenting Survival Guide, Letting Go of Conflict after a Difficult Divorce. Dr. Zimmerman is a member of the American Psychological Association and member, Past President, and Fellow of the Connecticut Psychological Association. He is also on the clinical faculty of the University of Connecticut Health Center

Elizabeth S. Thayer, Ph.D., is a Vice President and Cofounder of Beacon Behavior Services, LLC (Avon, CT) and the P.E.A.C.E. Program (Parents Equally Allied to Co-Parent Effectively), which is a specialized service for high-conflict divorcing parents. She is also coauthor of The Co-Parenting Survival Guide, Letting Go of Conflict after a Difficult Divorce. Dr. Thayer is a member of the American Psychological Association and Connecticut Psychological Association. She also serves on the State of Connecticut Board of Examiners in Psychology.

“The authors pool their clinical experience to raise questions aimed at increasing self-awareness and developing a healthier future, all presented as though the reader were sitting in their clinical office. The book is chock-full of wise, pithy advice regarding the management of intimacy and conflict in love, work, and parent-child relationships. This book is eminently readable and level-headed, a welcome antidote to the emotional roller coaster of parental divorce.”

—Marsha Kline Pruett, Ph.D., MS, coauthor of Your Divorce Advisor, associate professor, psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine

“Finally! A book that not only illuminates the emotional impact of parental divorce, but also provides concrete ways in which children of divorce can make sense of their painful pasts and work toward building better relationships as adults. Through poignant real-life stories and probing exercises, this book offers an invaluable road map for anyone still struggling with hurt and confusion by their parents’ divorce. A must-read for all adult children of divorce.”

—Stephanie Staal, author of The Love They Lost: Living with the Legacy of Our Parents’ Divorce