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My Parents Divorce Analysis

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According to Lipman-Blumen’s model, there are 10 dimensions to analyze my parents’ divorce. I think this crisis is a chronic and long-term stressor. The crisis can be described as follows: (1) The divorce was an internal stressor because it happened within the family. It affected immediate family members, relatives, friends, my study plan, my father’s career, and my mother’s emotions. Also, other family members are affected. For example, my mother never showed up for the family dinner in my grandfather’s house. My grandfather felt sad and disappointed because my mother used to take care of him while my father was in other cities. The result was that I ended up studying abroad, and my mother and father lived separately in two different …show more content…

The crisis happened three years ago, but until today, it’s still a scar in my heart. Every time when I read some analysis of divorced families, I can still recall those memories and suffers. Moreover, there were a lot of following questions about the finance, which also caused a lot of conflicts. My mother lost the trust of the marriage, and now she loves to live alone and take care of herself.
(6) It was kind of struggling between random and expectable because the divorce was expectable because my parents had been separated into two different cities for a long time. However, the reason for divorce was random, and my mother and I didn’t expect my father would put such stress on us and made us accept the result.
(7) It was generated artificially because it happened due to family members’ behaviors and decisions.
(8) It was about scarcity because the family didn’t have many resources to help the family cope with the crisis due to a variety of reasons. For example, the family doesn’t have the awareness about family therapy or other community resources to utilize.
(9) It was first seen as unsolvable, however, with the open communications and time, there were a lot of changes happened in the family. Gradually, it became toward more solvable because we found a new balance for the family after the crisis. However, the resolution is still limited because this event will bring a long-term effect. Some valuable points such as

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