Why Adult Children Resent the Divorce Years Later

Psychology Today | 09.12.2025 19:52
Georgia says, “I can’t help feeling defensive when my kids tell such a distorted version of our divorce.” Georgia doesn’t understand how her adult kids, now in their 30s and 40s, came to see their parents’ divorce so inaccurately. So many years later, they are expressing intense emotions of betrayal, abandonment, and confusion, Georgia says. Why?