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When other families trigger shame about your divorce

I go to my daughter's soccer games and watch all the intact families and wonder what is wrong with me that I could not make my marriage work like they did.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent torments themselves with idealized versions of other people's relationships while minimizing the legitimate reasons for their own choices.

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