Have you ever wondered what divorce would be like from the perspective of a teenager? The members in my private program, Flying Free, asked my daughter, Aimee, a ton of questions about her experience with divorce as a teenage girl. We’re here today to answer all of them: the awkward, the hilarious, and the intense.

Aimee was fourteen-years-old when my ex and I separated and seventeen-years-old when we were (finally) officially divorced. She was in her teenage-prime. But she made it through to the other side and is now a thriving, mildly successful young adult (her words, not mine). She knows a thing or two about being a teenager living through divorce, things we might not know as moms of kids. Listen as we riff about what this experience was like for her as she grew up.

Just a few of the questions you’ll see in today’s episode: 

• My adult daughter says she feels shame over her parents' divorce. Would you agree? Did you feel shame over your parents' divorce?”
• When adult children know deep down that their father was emotionally abusive to their mother, why do they tend to blame the mother for dissolving the marriage?
• Do you think you were treated like you were too fragile to handle the truth of divorce, or do you think you weren't shielded enough?
• Have you been in any kind of therapy, and if so, what kind and did it help?
• Did you side with one parent over another, and if so, what influenced that decision?
• How did your parents' separation impact your relationship with your brothers and sisters at the time that they first separated, and then how has that changed over time?
• When should a parent start putting teens into counseling?
• Do you still grieve the divorce as an adult, and do you think your siblings do?
• What do you do when you know your father's behavior is wrong, but you still love him?

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