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When divorce changes parent-child relationships

My teenage daughter and I used to be close but since her father and I divorced she's been angry with me in ways that feel bigger than just the divorce, and when we try to talk we both end up crying or yelling and I don't know how to reach her anymore.

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A family rupture has created new emotional territory that neither person knows how to navigate toward each other.

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