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Growing Up with Divorce — The Internal Split

#Divorce #Split #Seperation #Parents #Marriage #Children  It isn’t news that growing up with divorced parents has an impact on our psychological and emotional lives. It’s already well-known that children of divorce are more likely to end up in a broken marriage of their own as adults. It’s also known that the earlier in one’s life that they experience the divorce/separation of their parents, the greater impact it tends to have. Divorce can have an impact on various dynamic processes in one’s life. One such process I have seen with adults who grew up as children of divorced parents is an internal split that can actually develop as a response to divorce. It’s almost as if there is a constant struggle inside of oneself between two opposite worlds that seem unable to be reconciled (an internal mirror of the divorced parents). Consider it a form of “grass is greener” syndrome, or, “too country for the city, but too city for the country.” There are two (or multiple) entities dwellin...