Parenting Divorce

Finding yourself engaged in psychological warfare with the very person who was supposed to love, cherish, and protect you leaves you feeling powerless, beaten down, and wondering if you will be met with kindness or cruelty. The more you give, the less you get. You’re constantly walking on eggshells. If it feels like you’re living with chronic manipulation, you may be in a relationship with a narcissist.

Most of us spend a lot of time divorcing parts and pieces of ourselves in order to care for someone else. How often does divorcing you really work in the long run? A "divorceless" relationship is one where you don't have to divorce any part of you in order to be in a relationship with someone else. It is a place where everyone and everything you are in a relationship with can become greater as a result of the relationship.

On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler sons. It would be the last time she was seen alive. Laura's ex, Grant Hayes - the father of her two sons - and his wife, Amanda, the mother of his newborn daughter, both pointed the finger at each other as the one guilty of murdering Laura, cutting up her body, and then transporting and disposing of the remains on the shores of Oyster Creek, Texas.

Break the trauma bond for good and raise happy kids who know the value of setting boundaries because they see you do so confidently! This book will empower you to make it happen, with all the knowledge and practical tips you need to start making a change from Day One.

M. Gary Neuman shares the findings of his research with unfaithful husbands that turn the conventional wisdom about extramarital affairs on its head: It's not all about sex, he's not just a pig, and he really does feel terrible about what he's done. So why do men do it? Neuman reveals the emotional roots of male infidelity, explains how men experience and express their emotions, and lays out a simple series of actions you can take to ensure that your husband never strays.

Bien que les manipulateurs existent depuis la nuit des temps, ces sinistres individus restent mal connus : mal connus du grand public qui pourtant les côtoie quotidiennement, mal connus des institutions dont ils encombrent pourtant l'appareil judiciaire, mal connus des médecins et des psys dont ils saturent pourtant les cabinets des plaintes leurs victimes, mal connus de leurs victimes, elles-mêmes, qui se réveillent en général trop tard, quand le piège s'est refermé sur elles.

Are you dealing with a difficult ex who’s ruining your kids’ childhoods? Does it feel impossible to be happy because of this, not being able to see a way out? Are the challenges of co-parenting too difficult that you feel lost and hopeless? You probably feel like you want to scream from the top of a mountain or pull your hair out because of the stress.

Lo que me cansa y me preocupa de mi relación, ¿mejorará o empeorará con el tiempo? ¿Y si mejoran las cosas y yo me precipito a romper? Pero ¿qué pasará si empeora esta situación? Si terminamos, ¿mi futuro será mejor o peor de lo que estoy viviendo? Si continúo con mi pareja, ¿podré lograr más bienestar y satisfacción? En ocasiones, muchas de estas preguntas crean en nuestra mente un ciclo de indecisión repleto de dudas y desazón. Por eso, ¿Me quedo o me voy? nos traza un camino que podemos seguir para confirmar lo que deseamos y necesitamos de nosotros y de nuestra pareja.

With over 250,000 print copies sold, Coming Apart has been an important resource for hundreds of thousands of people experiencing painful divorces and breakups. Whether going through a divorce, separation, or breakup, bestselling author Daphne Rose Kingma offers the tools and validation needed to move forward.

Getting through the pain and confusion of a breakup is never easy—recover from the agony fast with easy, practical and proven steps. Best-selling author Laura Elliott has created a simple and easy way for women to deal with heartbreak, now updated for 2025. Full of practical advice that gets to work immediately, Elliott has distilled and removed all the nonsense out there, bringing you the essential guide to getting over a broken relationship.

What if your child's "life-after-divorce" could be better than you've hoped for? As the post-divorce dust settles, your child's chances of leading a healthy, successful life are directly linked to how you and your former spouse relate. So instead of listening to statistics, read this book to...

Letting go of someone you love from a death, divorce, or a breakup can be one of the hardest things you will ever do. To avoid more pain, you may be holding onto things that no longer serve you or avoiding it altogether. When you let go of things, it doesn't mean your loss is now "okay". Instead, it means you are going to be okay.

In Getting Back Out There, Susan J. Elliott - creator of the wildly popular blog GettingPastYourBreakup.com - guides you through the process of deciding when to date again, first date jitters, the selection (and rejection) of potential partners, and the rewarding experience of making a commitment to the right partner and being equipped for a happy, healthy relationship.

Based on over a decade of clinical and domestic abuse research, Women with Controlling Partners will help you identify the coercive constraints that can be predictive of intimate partner abuse, recognize the harmful effects of psychological abuse on your mental and physical health, and gain the personal strength and power to break free. Using the author's three-stage recovery model, you'll be empowered to move out of denial, deconstruct what holds you psychologically captive, and take back your life.

Do you want a more loving relationship, to be truly understood by the person you care about most, and to develop a deeper, more meaningful level of intimacy? Would you also like to experience better communication and more trust? Of course you want these things - we all do. If you've found this book, your relationship may be going through a difficult time, or perhaps you're just not as happy as you'd like to be. Don't throw in the towel yet - all relationships experience their ups and downs.

Journey with Grace through her hard lessons learned as she faced a decade-long custody battle against her narcissistic ex. If you're in this tough arena, you will need tools, strategies, and support for this difficult situation. It's key to watch out for any emotional thinking that can hijack you and put you into a state of anxiety-ridden reactions.

Dating is challenging enough in general, but if you’ve been through the emotional meat grinder of a toxic relationship, then it is even more difficult. You may struggle with fear and self-doubt, and you may wonder if it’s even possible for you to trust again, let alone fall in love. You may get all kinds of well-intended or invalidating bad advice, such as “you need to let down your guard and love like you’ve never been hurt” or “not every man (or woman) out there is like your ex”.

After two life-shaking events—losing her father and divorcing the man she’s spent half her life with, who happens to be an actor from a famous family—Rachel Lithgow leaves a thirty-year career to write full-time and pursue a relationship with a calming, delightful man she recently met online. She thinks she has it all figured out . . . until he announces he’s joining a cult and moving to Phoenix with a blonde real estate agent.

As her marriage collapses, the author of the international best-seller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight relearns the fearless ways of her father to find her own true north. Standing in the wreckage of her marriage, in her adopted country America, Alexandra Fuller revisits the continent she loves and finds in her father's harsh, simple, and uncompromising ways the key to her salvation.

The causes of affairs illuminate the path of recovery and prevention. Affairs don’t happen in a vacuum. The decision to cheat is not a simple impulse. Most of the time, the decision represents the cumulative effects of many factors that have been either hidden or ignored. Our lack of knowledge about the causes of affairs is the leading cause of our failure to recover from them. This book offers the listener an in-depth understating of the individual, relationship, and environmental causes of infidelity.