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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone getting divorced against her will, these posts depress TF out of me :( I so badly want to spare my kids from all this drama. It's heartbreaking. My heart goes out to you all (and I am also an ACOD, but I don't have a relationship with one of my parents).[/quote]

Aww honey.  It's hard.  But you're doing the right thing by educating yourself and reading the perspectives of others!  The divorced parents and other people who are in denial about the impact are the absolute worst.  If you're making a good faith effort to minimize the impact, you'll be fine.[/quote]

As one of the PPs, there's a lot you can do to mitigate the impacts on your kids.  My mom and I have a good relationship, and I took care of her when she had cancer a few years ago.  It's when parents refuse to take responsibility for their behavior that it becomes problematic.

Part of my setting firm boundaries is that I had to grow up with my parents' terrible marriage AND now have to deal with the issues of an ACOD.  It's like the worst of both worlds.  As much as some try to deny that it's not harder to be an adult with divorced parents, overall, it is.  Of course there are exceptions to everything, but that doesn't mean that on balance it's not more complicated.  Two wills to deal with, etc. etc.[/quote]

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