Overcoming Your Parents Divorce: 5 Steps to a Happy Relationship

by Elisabeth Joy Lamotte and M.S.W. Elisabeth Joy LaMotte LICSW AAMFT

Book Overview

Experts predict that children of divorce are fated to be unlucky in love, as divorce can shatter a young person's beliefs about the sanctity of marriage. In addition, maintaining healthy relationships... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882823299
• ISBN13: 9780882823294
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: New Horizon Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10

Customer Reviews

Just because your parents divorce does not mean that in your own marital relationship that you are d

Just because your parents divorce does not mean that in your own marital relationship that you are destined to as well. "Overcoming Your Parents' Divorce: 5 Steps To a Happy Relationship" is a divorce coping book aimed at an audience so often forgotten in this area - adults. With practical 'real-world' advice on dealing with the shadow of one's parents failure and how to overcome it within our own lives for a healthier future, the advice offered by Elisabeth Joy LaMotte is specifically designed to put relationship worries behind us. "Overcoming Your Parents Divorce" is recommended to the non-specialist general reader with the comforting message that marital success is not circumscribed by genetics or parental example.

I had no idea...

...that i would find this book so helpful. i am not a child of divorce. my parents have been happily and sometimes not so happily married for over 40 years. i bought this book for a friend going through a divorce, who also happens to be the child of several marraiges and divorces. i couldn't help flipping through the book when it arrived. what a gem! i hope to have a degree of even - keelness in my marriage. this book was a great help. lots of helpful exercises.

real happiness

Having grown up without role models for a good marriage, I am finding that the author's recommended exercises are very helpful to me (even though I've been through therapy myself). Hearing first-hand accounts of people's experiences has helped me validate my feelings and better understand my parents (and their parents). It is a must read for anyone considering marriage or already in a marriage (even if it is a happy one). Considering the steps the author suggests could only help improve what you have or launch you in the right direction with a new relationship. It will also help those people who are in unhappy relationships and looking to fix or end them. BUY THIS BOOK!