Overcoming Your Parents Divorce: 5 Steps to a Happy Relationship

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

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: 0.80 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!