Divorce

Many times we don't want to talk about divorce, yet, it is happening at almost a 60% rate in this country. Every year millions of kids go though their parents divorcing.  With these astounding statistics, it is a reality that if divorce has not affected you, it has impacted one of your friends.  Its affects are pervasive and long lasting. Below are some resources for adults and kids.

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Please Don't Say Anything, Just Listen

-A poem- -Anonymous-

Listen

When I ask you to listen to me,

And you start giving me advice,
You have not done what I asked.

When I ask you to listen to me,

And you begin to tell me why I

Shouldn't feel that way,

You are trampling on my feelings.

When I ask you to listen to me,

And you feel you have to do

Something to solve my problems,

You have failed me, strange

as that may seem.

Listen
All that I ask is that you listen,

Not talk or do - just hear me.

When you do something for me

That I need to do for myself,

You contribute to my fear

And to my feelings of inadequacy.
But, when you accept as a simple fact

That I do what I feel,

No matter how irrational,

Then I can quit trying to convince you,

And go about the business

Of understanding what's behind my feelings.

So please just listen and just hear me.

And if you want to talk,

Wait a minute for your turn - and

I'll listen to you.