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Here’s the write-up from Ignatius Press about our book:

The Meolas draw from their personal experience, theological formation, academic research, and especially their work of accompanying hundreds of men and women from broken homes to provide a spiritually rich and psychologically sound pathway toward healing for all those whose parents are no longer together, and who are seeking faith-based, reliable guidance for the unique challenges they face.

Some of the topics they cover include:

• Learning how to grieve well the loss of your parents' love together, no matter the timeline or circumstances

• Recognizing how your parents' fractured relationship may have affected your faith, identity, relationships, and more

• Overcoming fears about intimacy and building a strong marriage even when your own parents' relationship didn't last

• Discovering the healing power of true Christian forgiveness and its connection with healthy boundaries and honoring your parents

• Counteracting anger, anxiety, and temptations to sin in the wake of your parents' break-up

• Discussing the role of redemptive suffering in finding healing that lasts (how your wounds can become life-giving)

For readers who are not adult children of divorce or separation themselves but who love someone who is, this book will provide new depths of understanding about the wounds divorce can cause for children, into adulthood, so that all who love adult children of divorce can better understand them, receive their wounds, and help them heal.

In many ways, parental divorce is a lifelong wound for children, but it does not need to mean lifelong misery. With compassion, truthfulness, and deep faith in God's everlasting love, this book gives all those from broken homes the focused attention that their unique wounds deserve, and a trustworthy pathway towards healing, wholeness, and the abundant life Christ promises.