{"id":7308,"date":"2020-06-26T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/?p=7308"},"modified":"2020-06-26T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T19:43:07","slug":"3-ways-our-children-can-avoid-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/2020\/06\/3-ways-our-children-can-avoid-divorce.html","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways Our Children Can Avoid Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As parents, we spend a fair amount of time agonizing over our mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, we would have done many things differently. If only we hadn&#8217;t been grown children ourselves when we made our relationship choices and eventually married.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us had no idea our marriages would end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/374\/2020\/06\/bridge-child-children-fashion-191034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7326 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/374\/2020\/06\/bridge-child-children-fashion-191034-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we had, we wouldn&#8217;t have walked down the aisle, to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>All we can do now is embrace our mistakes, and give our children the tools to hopefully avoid them. There is hope.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to a piece I wrote.<\/p>\n<p>3 Ways Our Children Can Avoid Divorce and Have Better Relationships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psiloveyou.xyz\/how-will-my-children-avoid-divorce-b75ad11e3fff?source=friends_link&amp;sk=ee9eaa5c802a3964e409a59093e14c2e\">https:\/\/psiloveyou.xyz\/how-will-my-children-avoid-divorce-b75ad11e3fff?source=friends_link&amp;sk=ee9eaa5c802a3964e409a59093e14c2e<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m contributing pieces on Family Today and Medium. Follow me below. #WomanResurrected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@ColleenOrme\">On Medium @ColleenOrme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/colleenorme\/\"><strong>Follow me on Instagram @colleenorme\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colleensheehyorme\/\"><strong>Facebook @Colleen Orme National Columnist<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#WomanResurrected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>E-mail: Colleen.Sheehy.Orme@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@freestocks?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">freestocks.org<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/bridge-child-children-fashion-191034\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As parents, we spend a fair amount of time agonizing over our mistakes. 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