Oct
14
Comments on Dating after Divorce
Filed Under Alternative Roads in Family Law, Father's Rights in Family Law, Impact on Children
I was reading one of my favorite blogs, California Divorce & Family Law, and came across this post regarding Dating After Divorce.
I’ll leave it to you to read the post because it’s interesting, but briefly, it tells a story of divorced parents getting back into the dating scene. Coincidentally, the post quotes a story from the Hartford Courant in Connecticut, where I grew up.
It makes me think about my own experience as the child of divorced parents. My parents divorced when I was 2 and both remarried when I was about 5. I can honestly say that I never remember seeing either one of them date until I met the people they eventually married. I’m no psychologist, though I married one, but I have to figure that part of the reason my parent’s divorce was so smooth was because my parent’s kept their divorce, including their dating, to themselves and kept me entirely out of it. Well, as out of it as can be expected given that mom and dad lived in different houses and I saw dad on the weekends, etc.
For what it’s worth, nothing about my parents’ divorce and my experience with it got me interested in family law, except to the extent that I get clients who are serious about collaborative divorce and I hope that their divorce has as little impact on their children as my parents’ did on me.
Posted by Victor J. Medina -
Medina, Martinez & Castroll, LLC
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[…] Comments on Dating after DivorceFor what it’s worth, nothing about my parents’ divorce and my experience with it got me interested in family law, except to the extent that I get clients who are serious about collaborative divorce and I hope that their divorce has as … […]
I also think it’s important for newly divorced parent to socialize themselves ASAP after the split. The stress of loneliness will be felt by the child, so it’s important to make yourself happy.