Why MOMMY and DADDY Don’t Love Each Other Anymore

Why MOMMY and DADDY Don’t Love Each Other Anymore is the book every parent, grandparent, and caregiver needs when a family is navigating the painful reality of divorce and separation.

Children don’t cause divorce. But they carry it in ways you don’t even realize.

When a family changes shape through separation or divorce, children carry questions they don’t always know how to ask. They lie awake at night replaying conversations they only half understood. They watch their parents’ faces for clues about whether life will ever feel normal again. And more often than not, they carry the heaviest questions completely alone.

Am I still safe? Am I still loved? Is any of this my fault?

This book was written for every adult walking alongside a child through one of life’s most painful transitions — the single mom or single dad navigating the road alone, the grandparent holding a hurting grandchild close, the teacher watching a child quietly withdraw, and the co-parenting team carrying the weight of divided homes and shared custody arrangements that never quite feel settled.

With warmth, compassion, and hard-won insight drawn from years of walking alongside hurting families, James C. Tanner guides you through what children truly feel at every stage of a family breakdown — what they need most, what they rarely say out loud, and how the adults who love them can become their greatest anchor of healing and hope — whether you’re managing joint custody, co-parenting across two households, or simply doing your best with a broken heart that hasn’t finished healing yet.

Because the end of a marriage is never the end of a family.

What You Will Discover in Why MOMMY and DADDY Don’t Love Each Other Anymore

This book walks you through the emotional world of a child experiencing divorce — not from a clinical distance, but with the warmth and honesty that hurting families actually need. Inside you will find:

• What children of every age feel when a family separates — and why they rarely say it out loud
• How to answer the questions children are afraid to ask, including the hardest one of all: Is this my fault?
• Why children caught between two homes often carry guilt, loyalty conflicts, and hidden grief that the adults around them miss entirely
• How single parents, grandparents, teachers, and co-parenting partners can each play a vital and irreplaceable role in a child’s healing journey
• Practical guidance for navigating joint custody, shared parenting arrangements, and divided households, with a child’s emotional health always at the center
• How to recognize the signs that a child is struggling in silence — and what to do before that silence becomes something harder to reach
• How to help a child rebuild their sense of safety, belonging, and hope — even when the adults around them are still hurting too

Why MOMMY and DADDY Don’t Love Each Other Anymore — Written for the Adults Who Love Them Most

Children rarely have the words for what they feel when divorce reshapes their world. They act out, shut down, or quietly carry a weight that no child should ever have to bear alone. They become little diplomats navigating two households, two sets of rules, and two parents who are each doing their best while quietly falling apart. This book gives the adults in their lives the understanding, the language, and the compassionate tools to step into that gap — and become exactly what a hurting child needs most.

James C. Tanner, when writing Why MOMMY and DADDY Don’t Love Each Other Anymore wrote from his own experience as a divorcee and a single parent, as well as years of walking alongside hurting families, bringing the same warmth and plain-spoken honesty that has made the Healing For The Broken Heart trilogy a trusted companion for readers navigating life after love falls apart. His writing never lectures and never minimizes — it simply sits beside you and shows you the way forward.

Why MOMMY and DADDY Don’t Love Each Other Anymore is Book Three of the Healing For The Broken Heart Trilogy
By James C. Tanner | Calico GOLD Publishing
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