My teenage daughter and I used to be close but since her dad and I divorced last year, she's been angry with me in ways that feel bigger than the divorce itself, and I think we're both trying to figure out how to love each other through her growing up and my life falling apart at the same time.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two life transitions are colliding — one person individuating, another rebuilding — creating a crisis of timing where love must be renegotiated under impossible circumstances.
“Where Are You with Grief for lost relationships — ambiguous loss of divorce?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.