Caught in the middle. If you're an adult whose parents have recently divorced, you're probably feeling all these things, and a lot more. And the people around you probably don't understand that. They're telling you that you're an adult, so you should just be sad for a few weeks and get on with life. And that's why this column is here.
Adults grieve parental divorce as much as children do, just in different ways.
Hopefully through this column I can provide reassurance and support to adults going through parental divorce. And I know whereof I speak, because I've been there. By way of introduction, this first column will be my story. My parents separated in the summer of 1996, when I was 23. My parents' marriage was never one to write a song about, but I always thought it was a good marriage.