Resilience_During_and_After_Divorce_Reflection_Paper.dotx(1) Resilience During and After Divorce Grand Canyon University Resilience During and After Divorce During and after divorce, individuals go through a lot of
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Resilience_During_and_After_Divorce_Reflection_Paper.dotx(1) Resilience During and After Divorce Grand Canyon University Resilience During and After Divorce During and after divorce, individuals go through a lot of difficulties. A person who intends to successfully navigate the psychological and emotional toil that are characteristic of the process must hence be resilient. Through self-reflection, this paper will examine two stories from the chapter œFamily Chaos and Resilience from Children of Divorce-Stories of Loss and Growth and in the process reveal some of the important learning points on resilience with regard to divorce. i) Pretending that the Family is Normal The first thing that struck me when I saw the above title was the word œnormal. What really does a normal family constitute? This is more so when we consider that there are different types of families and the institution of family has been dynamic over recent years. To me, normal is a bit a far-fetched concept, an ideal, just like the many couples who marry thinking it will last forever, but not the reality. Despite my assertions concerning normality, I still think it takes a lot of resilience to grow up in a fractured family, as Melissa did. Melissa normalizes the œnot so normal that divorce is. She recognized the physical separation that she experienced from her father after the divorce as an event that was due to happen, considering that their relationship was not strong prior to the divorce. She also recognized the fighting and the unstable financ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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