Divorce: A New Understanding

I'm so glad we talked about this in class this past week.  I feel like I never really understood before how divorced families work.  When you take different people and families and join them together, you're not just making a new family.  You're combining everyone's traditions, hopes, expectations, parenting styles, insecurities, and whatever else into one place.  There are a lot of things that take a lot of time to work through!!  However, having open, honest communication is helpful in working through many of these problems.  You can't make assumptions about the other person while looking through your lens because the other person is making decisions by looking through a completely different lens.  Only by communicating and working together to fulfill your roles and expectations can you look through the pair of glasses together.