Key points

Offering to talk about the situation with adult kids can help ease tension among family members.

Putting yourself in your adult kids’ shoes can promote mutual understanding.

Giving adult children time to come around allows them to process the situation.

Not asking adult children to take sides demonstrates consideration for their best interests.

Going through a gray divorce , a divorce that occurs between spouses aged 50 and over, is challenging enough. But to go through one without the support of your adult children? Or worse, having to deal with their opposition? That can feel like a special place in hell.

How can you maneuver through this kind of emotional turmoil? As a family law attorney who’s helped families work through the legalities of gray divorce and the intens

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