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1) Introduction

2) Effects on the parents

Confronting your emotions

Inappropriate behavior

For the one living with the children

For the one not living with the children

Treat yourself well

Managing your emotions

Acceptance and adjustment

Tips to treat yourself well

3) My children

Reaction towards parents' separation/divorce in different ages

How to assist children to adapt to the separated lives

What will help the children most - things that parents can do

You should seek professional help if you have the below problems

Q & A - how to answer your children's questions

Handbook for Parents 1
Impact of separation and divorce

 

Confronting your emotions

 


   Separation/divorce may bring you a chain of emotions:


  • Exhaustion – separation/divorce arrangements can be very stressful leading to fluctuation in emotion.
  • Sorrow/Anger – Failure in the marriage may bring you down, or even bring resentment towards each other.
  • Worry – The uncertainty for the future, and the impacts it will have on your children.
  • Guilt – Guilt towards your children and ex-partner.

Majority of people are aware of their unstable and overly sensitive emotions, and these feelings may strike anytime. Although we can’t control how we feel, we have the ability to choose how to react to it. Keep in mind that how you manage your own emotions and how you treat your ex-partner will have direct impact on how your children adjust to this separation/divorce.

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