Sentences with phrase «stories about divorce»

One of the underreported stories about divorce and family instability is that children of divorce are not destined to repeat the cycle of divorce if they actively decide as a couple to be committed.

The media portrayal and horror stories about divorce are not the only way.

We've all heard the horror stories about divorce — the bitter arguments, the sky - high attorney fees, the endless court appearances, the traumatized children.

It features twelve amazing kids sharing their own real - life stories about divorce.

Another said that, without context, they would've believed all of the photos to be from a story about divorce.

by Laura Broadwell - Parent's Magazine Books for Kids Sometimes reading a story about divorce can help a child make sense of his feelings and understand that he is not alone.

Not exact matches

If you know anything about Robbins's personal story, however, you might know that his childhood was pretty rough: His parents divorced when he was 7 years old.

Jumping off a story covered previously here on Inc.com about a man who used creative passwords to help him heal after his divorce, Davis - Laack suggests stressed business people use the same technique for slightly different ends.

Again, I really want to stress this is not about the messy never ending post divorce antics with an NPD but the culture of leaders in this publishing / speaking / minor celebrity circle that have smeared names and reputations in order to appear one way while behind the scenes another story is going on.

I'm curious though, what you remember from 4 - 5 years ago about the rumors surrounding the Jones» divorce... had you heard the story alleging Julie's mental illness?

Our re-connection is not important but what I wanted to tell you is that when I told the wife about this thread, and that «Tony Jones» ex-wife is telling her story... I guess they got divorced?

She's inviting apologies, or what most likely would be a set of counter-accusations and justifications, or at least explanatory context that would likely invite scrutiny into her behavior at the time because again divorces are competing clashing stories about pain and betrayal and rage and brokenness.

Here is a story about a young man in my area who came from a upper middle class home, mother and father married, never divorced.

The stories say nothing about what happens in the event of divorce, or if she someday wants to marry someone else.

A recent story in the L.A. Times about the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops devoted to the pastoral care of families, offered this provocative view: «Vatican to Debate Teachings on Divorce, Birth Control, Gay Unions.»

They begin to hide behind clouds of criticism of the Church or of particular Christians, or they create a diversion by arguing about the historicity of the Old Testament stories, or, for example, about the Church's attitude toward war or divorce.

Maybe it's because my mom leaned too much on me after her divorce, filling me up with stories about how all she'd ever wanted to be was a wife and mother, and -LSB-...]

When the economy and housing market tanked, the media was filled with stories about how many would - be divorced couples were staying together for the sake of the house — neither could afford to live in it solo and no one else could afford to buy it.

In Amanda de Cadenet's new book, It's Messy ($ 27, amazon.com), the host of the celebrity interview series The Conversation writes candidly about her own life story, from her days as a teenage talk show host to becoming a mom at 19 to her high - profile marriage — and divorce, by the time she was 26.

Between her own life experiences - including a 23 year marriage, raising an amazing daughter, surviving a tough divorce, overcoming a history of childhood sexual abuse, and sitting at the brink of suicide - and then learning about even more relationship stories through interviews from folks across the country... she's heard it all.

Leave The Negatives Behind You find that lots of people will spend a large portion of their date talking about the past and things that went through; divorces, relationships, kids, jobs... you don't want to paint yourself as some tragic story, though.

Mr. Popper's Penguins is a children's story in which Carrey draws a little from both sides of the spectrum but manages to find a happy medium — which is about right for a comedy about a divorced father who cohabits with penguins.

A truly gifted comedic actress, McCarthy is wasting her talents with this vanilla - flavoured story about a soon - to - be divorced mom heading back to university, where she shares friends with her undergrad daughter and seamlessly becomes what the film's title says she is.

A compelling story about an unraveling marriage, the complexities of contemporary Iran, and the damage wrought by divorce, writer - director Asghar Farhadi's A Separation is a stunning film that is equally intimate, moving, and free of affectation.

It's so well intentioned, a ripped from the headlines human - and - dog interest story about a troubled child of divorce who escapes her dead - end town by joining the Marines.

The story is about American businessman Alan (Tom Hanks), going through a divorce and trying to stay connected to his young adult daughter while he travels to Saudi Arabia to try and sell a holographic telecommunication system to the Saudi royal family's government.

It is the story of Eva (Julia Louis - Dreyfus) a divorced mother whose daughter is just about to leave home to go to college.

A story about the collision of the Old and New West, two brothers — Toby, a straight - living, divorced father trying to make a better life for his son; and Tanner, a short - tempered ex-con with a loose trigger finger — come together to rob branch after branch of the bank that is foreclosing on their family land.

4:00 pm — TCM — His Girl Friday This is a remake of a 1931 film called The Front Page about newspaper buddies who go after a major story — Hawks took it to a whole new level by turning one of the men into a woman, and setting reporters Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant as a former couple, now divorced who can't seem to stay apart, either personally or professionally.

With four main characters, caught up in a melodrama about divorce, the risk of this story veering into one dimensional histrionics is high, but Farhadi navigates it thanks to an almost novelistic drawing of his characters and narrative.

10:00 pm — TCM — His Girl Friday This is a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page about newspaper buddies who go after a major story — Howard Hawks takes it to a whole new level by turning one of the men into a woman, and setting reporters Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant as a former couple, now divorced who can't seem to stay apart, either personally or professionally.

For his follow - up to 2009's sublime A Single Man, the fashion designer turned filmmaker has recruited the respective acting talents of Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal to tell the story of a divorced couple who come to learn some dark, uncomfortable secrets about each other.

But The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach's fourth film as writer - director, has inspired more conversation about the degree to which it does or does not tell the story of his own childhood — more specifically, the divorce of his parents, novelist Jonathan Baumbach and former VILLAGE VOICE film critic Georgia Brown — than about the self - reflexive canniness of the filmmaking itself.

As Susan reads the fictional story over the course of a lonely weekend, she reminisces about her relationship with Tony and the unforgiveable betrayal that led to their divorce, haunted by the novel's thematic undercurrents of resentment and rage that play out like retribution for her own sins.

An all - star cast (Steve Carrell, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling) and a twisting story about love, sex and playing the field, this film manages to avoid cliché admirably while trodding the well - worn path of infidelity, divorce and mid-life reinvention.

Though based on a true, if sanitized story — in real life the rescued lion cub named Elsa was never fully rehabilitated and died piteously and prematurely of a tick disease; the happily married Joy and George eventually divorced and were both brutally murdered in two separate incidents — the film works best as a parable about parents and children.

If you're curious about any story, all you have to know is that Dwayne Johnson and Carla Gugino play the aforementioned husband and wife who reunite to rescue their daughter Blake (the ridiculously beautiful Alexandra Daddario) from a decimated San Francisco, totally forgetting about the divorce papers they were about to sign right before all hell breaks loose.

On the surface, the story follows Elizabeth as she enters her freshman year at Harvard University on a journalism scholarship - something she presumably won from Seventeen magazine after sending in a well - written article about her parent's divorce that was totally false.

«The Girl on the Train» Cast: Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett Director: Tate Taylor Release Date: Oct. 7 What it's about: The story follows a recently divorced woman (Blunt) who fantasizes during her daily commute about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until she sees something shocking and becomes entangled in a mystery.

I shared a story with the class about being a child of divorced parents and having another parent label me as lacking «good values.»

One student chooses to tell a story about an absent father, another about divorce, yet another about the loss of a grandparent.

The story is about Daisy, an American woman who moves to Buenos Aires in search of an escape after she and her husband divorce.

She'd «pick a piece of furniture, and write a story about it: who has it, who covets it, who got a divorce — that type of thing.

Then, after finishing the short story, I had fallen in love with Ushman as a character and was compelled by my curiosity to continue writing about him as a man trying to find his way after a devastating divorce.

A fiercely independent divorce lawyer learns the power of family and connection when she receives a cryptic message from her estranged mother in this bittersweet, witty novel from the nationally bestselling author of Someone Else's Love Story and gods in Alabama - an emotionally resonant tale about the endurance of love and the power of stories to shape and transform our lives.

Last week, I read this article about a custody battle over a divorcing couple's beloved dog, which was the cover story in the New York Post.

The truth is there are lots foreigners that have a happy relationship with a Thai woman and the only reason why a lot of people don't know about it is because they are hanging out in the bars all the time and get to hear the sad stories that have started and ended in the red light district (often if a Thai hooker breaks up or divorces with her guy she goes back to beach road even though she has enough money just because it's so much easier than looking for a real job).

I'd got a rough outline for the story, that it was going to be about divorce which is such a common thing these days.

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

The reality is, every single person who's ever gone through a divorce feeling like they were out of control cares very much about the story told in that second bullet.