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Beat the odds: Make your marriage work despite your parents’ divorce

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 22, 2002 — If your parents’ marriage ended in divorce, will your marriage suffer the same consequences? Beverly and Tom Rodgers, marriage therapists, say it does not have to be that way.

In their new book, Adult Children of Divorced Parents: Making Your Marriage Work, the Rodgers share their personal experiences about how their parents’ divorce has shaped their adult lives. They give examples from other couples’ experiences as well as tips from their years as counselors of adult children of divorced parents (ACDOPs). The book provides couples with a framework for discussing the relationship problems and pitfalls that are common to couples with divorce in their family background.

Instead of concentrating on statistics and the latest trends in research, the book focuses on the stories of real people living through the experience of parental divorce and the obstacles they face in trying to maintain relationships of their own. Beverly Rodgers comments, “Without role models of successful husbands and wives in the previous generation, many couples lack the skills required to succeed in matrimony. Those skills are what we focus on in this book.”

The book identifies and examines the many emotional wounds and obstacles that can result from parental divorce: inability to trust, fear of doom, fear of abandonment, insecurity, anger, power struggles between partners and weakened social relationships. Included in the chapters are exercises that help couples learn to communicate their feelings in proactive, positive ways and to eliminate anger and mistrust from their communication. The Rodgers also emphasize the importance of learning to forgive and healing from the emotional wounds of parental divorce as the two most important ways of creating happy marriages.

The authors lend their personal expertise to the content of the book in a special way since they are a married couple, both from divorced families and are professional marriage counselors.

Twenty-year veteran marriage counselors and trainers Beverly and Tom Rodgers have techniques that enhance communication, promote empathy, foster forgiveness, and build an intimacy that heals the soul.  They facilitate Soul Healers workshops for both couples and singles, and they train pastors and counselors to use their techniques.  They are the authors of Soul-Healing Love and How to Find Mr. or Ms. Right.

ADULT CHILDREN OF DIVORCED PARENTS
Making Your Marriage Work
Beverly and Tom Rodgers
6" x 9", 168 pages
ISBN: 0-89390-552-6, $19.95

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