What's Wrong With Divorce?
Mon, May 06
|Stumberg Hall
What's the big deal about divorce? Why should we read and talk about it when everyone around us seems to be fine with it? The truth is: no matter what our family background, our age, or our state in life is, we all need to rediscover the immense impact that family life has on us and on our culture.
Time & Location
May 06, 2024, 7:00 PM – May 07, 2024, 9:00 PM
Stumberg Hall, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA
About The Event
A special description from our Executive Director, Dr. Marianna Orlandi, about this reading group:
"Adult Children of Divorce (ACOD) are full of wounds, scars, and relational issues. Of course, they can grow up to be amazing mothers, fathers, and professionals. But as therapists, counselors, and social scientists know and document, there is a radical difference in a child's life (and mindset) when one of the parents is not in the picture.
As a child of divorce myself, I can testify that it took me almost forty years to fully understand the extent to which the things I had-and had not-witnessed and experienced in my family life have affected my personality. For this reason, I decided to start a group open to all. First, it is open to people like me, who think they may have figured it all out, but who are instead still victims of something that went wrong…
