My mother and step-father are divorcing after 20 years of marriage.
2007-10-21 05:51:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I'll tell you how I have had to handle it, Don't know if it helps. I sat my niece down when her Mom and Dad went through a divorce. I explained to her that sometimes she has had best friends that she thought would be friends for life, then for some reason, other people and other circumstances came and she and her friends started moving apart. She still liked the her friend, but they weren't as close any more. Now she had new friends that she thinks will be friends for life. I asked her how many best friends for life she has ever had. We spent a few minutes talking about each of them and how she still cares, but they have grown apart. I explained to her that it happens with grownups too. When she faced it this way, she could empathize with her parents. It still hurt some, but not as much because she now could understand and not blame herself. She was 8 when this happened.
Hope it helps
2007-10-21 06:13:59 · answer #1 · answered by the_chief 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For a child that young, not having both of his or her's parents there will be hard. It affects everyone. But make it sweet and simple. Such as saying that they still love him/her very much, but don't feel the same twards the other. They got into disagreements, and don't want to be with each other anymore. Just make it sound human and so that the child will understand.
2007-10-21 06:03:08 · answer #2 · answered by That Girl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no best way to explain something like that without it hurting the child. Either way the child is going to be affected. I guess you could say that Mom and Dad still love you, but they no longer enjoy each other's company. This is not your fault in any way.
Good luck.
2007-10-21 05:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by nobodyd 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i became 9 while my dad and mom advised me they have been getting divorced. and that i became truthfully never broken up approximately it (somewhat dissatisfied of course) through fact my dad and mom have been so good approximately it. it is so important to verify your babies be attentive to that it has no longer something to do with them, and which you the two nevertheless love them very plenty, yet that your emotions for the different are not the comparable and that's maximum suitable in case you do no longer stay mutually anymore. it is likewise important to verify you never communicate undesirable approximately one yet another. do no longer element hands (even in the adventure that your important different merits it). communicate one yet another, and espeically the area up as much as achieveable, and enable them to be attentive to which you will the two nevertheless be a great element of his life.
2016-10-13 10:23:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now they will send you to a foster's home somewhere in Stuttgart & you will be close to a psycho........
2007-10-21 05:56:23 · answer #5 · answered by Alexecution: Kickilution 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
someone had to go on a trip you chose which one
2007-10-21 05:54:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
tell her/him they were like rose...and now the leave went apart :"(
2007-10-21 05:55:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
sadly ,and I am sorry you have to go through this
2007-10-21 06:09:23 · answer #8 · answered by BLUE ROCK 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋