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*'''Acceptance:''' "I'm ready for whatever comes." Finally finding the way forward. Decisions are much easier to make because people have often found new purpose, finally having begun to accept their loss.
Dr. Robert Emery agrees that the Kübler-Ross model applies to the end of long-term relationships, but he looks at the grief process in a slightly different way. In his book ''[http://www.worldcat.org/title/renegotiating-family-relationships-divorce-child-custody-and-mediation/oclc/30474579 Renegotiating Family Relationships]'', Dr. Emery describes the grieving process as a cycle of love, anger, and sadness, which gets repeated in varying degrees of intensity as a person works their way through the KublerKübler-Ross stages, from shock and denial at the end of the relationship through to acceptance of the end of the relationship.
In his excellent book ''[http://www.worldcat.org/title/truth-about-children-and-divorce-dealing-with-the-emotions-so-you-and-your-children-can-thrive/oclc/53485317 The Truth about Children and Divorce]'', Dr. Emery says this: