Primal Loss

In her book Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak, Leila Miller compiled painful stories of men and women from divorced families and the struggles they've faced and still face today. Even as adults, they share how their parents' separation and divorce has impacted them.

In an interview with Patrick Coffin, Leila discussed why she compiled the book, the shocking struggles her contributors face even years after the divorce, the drastically different life experience that adult children of divorce have compared to adult children from intact families, and the much more. You can watch the interview here:

We live in an age of divorce parties, Hallmark Cards that celebrate divorce, and sit-com plots that revolve around the "hilarious" hi jinx that ensue when the ex comes over. The necessary premise for this age is the notion that kids don't really suffer because of divorce, not really, right?

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