Review: Where was this book when I needed it?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2013
Having gone through a divorce as the custodial parent of a teenage daughter, I bought Help Your Teen Survive Your Divorce by Jessica Fleming more as a way to gauge how ably I'd handled the situation than as any preparation for a current or future event. And I'm glad to say that I feel I did fairly well, although I confess that I would have done better had I read this before the breakup.The information I found here should almost be required reading for couples who are heading for divorce, whether they have teens in the home or not. Most of what it teaches would benefit every member of a family in such a situation, including children of any age, and even the adults themselves. Learning how to focus on the positive aspects, as hard as that may seem, would make the stresses of a family breakdown easier to bear and survive for everyone involved.In addition, for those who do have kids involved, this book will help you to understand a lot of what they're going through in the trying times. This is an important point, since it's very easy to lose focus on anything but the pain you're experiencing yourself. By gaining an understanding of how the divorce is affecting other members of your family, you have the opportunity to take a step back and look at the problems from a new perspective, one that can make the entire event less traumatic for all concerned.If you're headed for divorce, or even if you've already filed, be sure to read this book. If the divorce is over, you can still gain valuable insights, because while the divorce may take only a few weeks to be final, the repercussions will be with you for years, and the more you are able and willing to cope with them and help your children cope with them, the better your family will come through it.