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When parents divorce, a child can either come from a “broken home” or “ two homes”. Our Mesa, AZ therapists are especially trained in complex family matters including co-parenting and family therapy between divorced / separated couples.
When parents divorce, a child can either come from a “broken home” or “ two homes”. A broken home leaves a child feeling as if they need to pick sides, have a favorite parent, or outright hate one parent in order to be loved by the other. Coming from two homes mean while each parent may have different rules and expectations these rules and expectations are respected in each home. The child is not able to split the parents even though they are no longer together. The child can speak of either parent in either home and will always be encouraged to do so in a respectful way.
When babies are born you often hear they have their mothers’ eyes, or their dads’ chin. As they get older personality traits start to be attributed to each parent, they have their dad’s sense of humor or they are caring just like their mom.
When a couple decides to end their relationship these sweet sentiments can quickly turn into ammunition to be fired when a parent is upset with the child or the ex partner.
Remembering that children are half of each parent, so when comments such as “you have a temper just like your father.” and your child knows the “temper” has been an issue they can internalize the statements as … you hate dads temper + I have dad’s temper = you hate me. While a parent would never say these things to their child ; the child can internalizes that exact feeling when they hear negative comments about the other parent.
When our children get into a scuffle with another child on the playground, we often mutter words such as “Play nice”. Meaning use nice words, play fair, and even if you don’t like the other child be respectful. However when a relationship has reached the point where both parties have decided they no longer want to be together , it is hard to remember these basic rules. When we feel anger, hurt and sadness it can be difficult to remember to interact with the pother parent in these ways. that when we are not respectful of the other parent, call them by something other than their name or constantly assuming the worst of them we are not showing our child the way we would want them to behave towards another person. Behaviors such as these will not only affect how the child perceives each parent, but also how they perceive themselves.
Our Mesa, AZ therapists are especially trained in complex family matters including co-parenting and family therapy between divorced / separated couples.
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