04/05/2025
When kids live in the middle of prolonged family conflict, it can have a huge impact on their mental and emotional health. Studies say they often feel anxious and depressed and can live in a chronic state of fight or flight. Without understanding what normal and healthy relationships look like, they sometimes bring the same behaviors into their own adult relationships.
By divorcing when your children are younger, you may be able to inadvertently minimize their exposure to any hostility between you and your spouse. They then won't continue to take on feelings of responsibility for it or normalize it.
Kids living with parents who are unhappy together often wait for the other shoe to drop. They can be afraid of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. They feel like they have to grow up fast. And they often start copying the relationship dynamics and behaviors they observe.
Focus on loving them and providing a calm, respectful home environment - that's what kids need most.
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