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  The Four Types of Infidelity and How to Cope By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Infidelity is all too common and when it occurs it raises many questions. Should you stay? Can trust be rebuilt? Of all of the real-life stories of women interviewed for my research, Penny’s story best illustrates the searing pain of infidelity and how it can be toxic to all family members. Penny, in her late thirties, says with passion in her voice, “My dad is a musician and his pattern was to marry (three times) and be happy at first. Then he went out to play the guitar, and he didn’t come home for several weeks. As I said earlier, he wasn’t a family man and should never have gotten married.” As a young adult, Penny reenacted patterns from her past when she married Steven, who had several flings during their ten-year marriage. Penny was attracted to a partner who bore a strong resemblance to her father – who was emotionally unavailable and unfaithful to her mother. In order to better understand infidelity...

  9 Warning Signs Your Marriage is Headed for Divorce By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Truth be told, red flags usually appear fairly early on in a relationship that can signal eventual disaster if people don’t pay attention to them. Most of the couples I’ve worked with discuss the fact that their relationship problems didn’t surface overnight but were the result of buried resentment that built up over a period of many years. Let’s look at Caitlin and Ryan, a couple in their late twenties who came to their first session ready to call it quits because their arguments had escalated recently. Catlin reported: “Ryan and I fight about everything from finances to who is cooking dinner – a lot of issues go unresolved because Ryan avoids intimacy.” To this Ryan responded “I just can’t do anything to make her happy.” During our session, they both made it clear that they had been unhappy for some time and were really looking at a way to separate rather than work things out. Unfortunately, the co...

Chicago Illinois Divorce and Family Law, Mehta Family Law Group of Chicago. The Mehta Law Group is one of Chicago’s premier law firms. Our team of lawyers and staff are here to serve you and to help you build a better future for yourself and your family. We represent individuals, families, and children in every aspect of the legal process from beginning to end. Our attorneys bring with them over 30 years of combined experience, we are professional, and treat every individual with the respect they deserve. We are hardworking and don’t back down, our goals is always to advocate for our clients, to ensure a positive end result... Call 312-374-4559

Chicago Illinois Divorce and Family Law, Mehta Family Law Group of Chicago. The Mehta Law Group is one of Chicago’s premier law firms. Our team of lawyers and staff are here to serve you and to help you build a better future for yourself and your family. We represent individuals, families, and children in every aspect of the legal process from beginning to end. Our attorneys bring with them over 30 years of combined experience, we are professional, and treat every individual with the respect they deserve. We are hardworking and don’t back down, our goals is always to advocate for our clients, to ensure a positive end result... Call 312-374-4559

  One Mindset Shift That Could Change How Divorce Affects Your Children By Christina McGhee For co-parents thinking about the effects of divorce on children. Over the past week, how many emails have you gotten so far that read something like this…”Welcome to 2020! A brand-new year and a brand-new decade,” or “OMG, it’s 2020!!! Happy Freaking New Year!! If your inbox is anything like mine, you’ve probably gotten quite a few of these. TBH, I’m not feeling it. I know, I know… A New Year is supposed to be a time when everyone thinks about fresh starts, new beginnings, and making big changes. Me? I’m still in reflection mode and processing what happened in our family this Christmas for the first time in decades and why it took sooooo freaking long to get there. It’s something I’ve never written about before. And even though parts of it are hard to admit, it’s important to me to walk my talk. As a coach, I ask parents to do hard things all the time, things that feel awkward, uncomfortabl...

  How to stay resilient when life gets tough By Christina McGhee I hope that you and yours have managed to stay safe and healthy over the past couple of months. For some of you, it’s been a while since you’ve heard from me. I thought you should know why. I don’t know one single person whose life hasn’t been impacted by the multitude of challenges this year has thrown our way. Anybody else ready to be done with 2020? I know I am. 2020 hasn’t been a banner year for the McGhee household, but probably not for the reasons you’d expect. Since January hit, we’ve had two deaths in the family. My father was hospitalized for the second time in three months, the first time involved open-heart surgery. One of my children was in a serious car accident and ended up in the Emergency Room, (thankfully she only sustained minor injuries.) My husband was quarantined twice due to possible COVID exposure. Days after being released from quarantine, he managed to injure his foot and spent two more weeks ...