The Challenges of Divorce

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When someone close to you is getting divorced or in a breakup, it is easy to feel pressure to take sides.

Help both sides understand your feelings and keep clear boundaries between the relationships.

The best you can do is be honest, sensitive, and emotionally generous.

Divorces and breakups are tough not only for the two people involved but also for their friends and families. Suddenly, you’re feeling stuck in the middle of a collapsing relationship—of your parents, children, siblings, or best friend—over which you have no control. But it is not just them you are concerned about; it is also the “others”—your brother-in-law or son-in-law, or your friend’s partner—with whom you also have a relationship.

And so, you can feel pressure to take sides: Your sister doesn’t understand why you’re not as angry with your brother-in-law as she is, even though, in........

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