A child’s grief response to divorcing parents can be somewhat predicted by their developmental age grouping at the time of the divorce. The child’s needs and responses will vary from one age grouping to another. Of course, children move through developmental stages at different rates, so the following age groupings are approximate. Infants, 0 to...
Just as you grieve during a divorce, children do too. Even though they grieve, they may also feel considerable relief when fighting stops and anger no longer defines the atmosphere of their home. However, children and adults grieve differently. Children are more likely to feel abandoned and unsure of how their lives will change when...
The last stage of grieving the loss of a relationship is acceptance. Just because a person has accepted the loss, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the divorcing spouse is now “okay” with the divorce. More likely, it means that the divorcing spouse is accepting the reality of the divorce and is learning to live with it....
Not surprisingly, depression is the fourth non-linear stage in the divorcing spouse’s grieving process. According to Grief.com, depression is a signal that the grieving spouse is moving into the present, yet the empty feelings and sense of hopelessness can feel permanent and overpowering. In an article by First Wives World, the depressed grieving spouse may feel unable to get...
The third stage of a divorcing spouse’s grieving for the soon to be ended marriage is the bargaining stage. In the bargaining stage of the grief process, the divorcing spouse still believes, at some level, that reconciliation is possible. According to Alexis Aiger on the Livestrong website, this belief can exist despite the other spouse’s clear...
The second stage of grief with loss in divorce is anger. Anger is often the first emotion associated with divorcing spouses in the popular media. Since anger is seen as the first stage so much in the media, less attention has been paid to the fact that many mental health professionals consider anger to be...
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