When an emotional bond is broken, you go through a very difficult phase. How to overcome well the stages of pain and sufferin.This is the text of a talk given at a conference for separated people and delves into what the trauma of separation can bring into people’s lives, but also explains how one can overcome the pain of this situation and find the resources to continue on one’s life path.
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26 years ago, when we were just engaged, my husband and I started to donate to a Distance Support project with Action New Families Onlus.
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Married 33 years, 5 children, 4 grandchildren. The story of Leonardo Innocenti and Simona Sarta
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If the relationship in a couple is healthy, their family is also healthy: the evolution of the relationship of parents in relation to the well-being of their children.
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When children discover their own sets of guiding values. As parents we are often faced with situation, we did not expect or wish for regarding our children. One such situation challenged my husband and me to put into practice our deep beliefs about love.
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Dance can teach a couple to tune in and start again together, just like two dancers on the wave of music.
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There is an aspect of marriage defined by Jesus in the sense that Jesus said of marriage, “What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.” Sometimes it is not man who separates, it is God who separates, because he calls either the bridegroom or the bride to heaven. It is some divine thing like, let the word pass, a little Trinity that splits. Here then is the state of widowhood, male, female. Here is the widow who remains as if broken in half; here is the figure of the one who says, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”, in that the unity is broken by God’s will.
(The Founding Speech of the New Families Movement – Chiara Lubich)
A loving and forgiving experience
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