3. Your Children Are Affected
Divorce is the permanent breakup of a family. Divorce ends the fairytale of marriage, and makes children, if any, into victims. As resilient as children may be, regardless of their age, divorce can affect them in a variety of ways. Witnessing a loss of love between parents, having parents break their marriage commitment, adjusting to going back and forth between two different households, splitting their time between their parents, and the daily feeling of feeling torn between the two people they love most, all create a challenging new family circ*mstance in which to live. When divorce happens, a child’s world is never the same. They have to figure out how to navigate a newly fractured world. Children forced to constantly shift gears between two homes, two environments, two sets of rules, etc. is traumatizing.
