*Please share this podcast with friends, subscribe, and leave a comment or question.* If you are divorcing and have adult children, you might be surprised to learn that they also experience grief and loss. Your divorce can shake their foundation. Listen in as Linda Hershman, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, shares the significant impact on the adult children of divorcing parents and steps you should take to ease the transition.

Linda relates that adult children suffer an ambiguous loss, yet society expects them to “suck it up” and get over it. She shares concrete rules for managing adult children during divorce. Her number one rule is that you should always love your children more than you hate your ex. That means not giving the adult children the gory details, resisting the urge to trash talk your ex, and learning to be independent and not looking to your children as substitutes for your ex.

Facing a parents’ divorce can be very emotionally challenging, especially if it comes at a time when the adult children are raising their own families and may have small children, or they were out of the house and did not see conflicts in the marriage. Linda shares actionable tips on how to break the news, discuss when the other parent is lying, and how to navigate when an affair partner is involved.

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Editing by: Tyler Owens

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About your guest: Linda Hershman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been in practice for 30 years. She wrote, "Gray Divorce: Everything You Need to Know About Later-Life Breakups" when she noticed how many of her clients over age 50 were divorcing or divorce questioning and needed solutions for the unique emotional, parenting, legal, and financial issues of later-life divorce. Find Linda here: https://lindahershman.com  https://www.facebook.com/lhershmanlmft/

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About your host: I’m Lisa McCluskey, MBA, a retired healthcare executive turned podcaster after being blindsided by divorce after decades of marriage. I interview experts on the Silver Divorce Podcast to help people through the traumatic divorce journey. This podcast provides education and is not intended as legal advice.