My ex-husband and I have been divorced for three years but we're both going through major life changes now—I'm starting a new career and he's remarried—and we're struggling to figure out how to coparent our teenagers when we're both becoming different people than we were when we split up. Our kids are watching us both reinvent ourselves and I think they're confused about how to relate to these new versions of their parents.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people committed to shared parenting must coordinate their separate identity transformations for the stability of their children.
“Where Are You with Midlife identity reinvention?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.