by Heidi Webb | Mar 26, 2020 | 2020
Mollie turned six years old this past Thursday. She’d been planning her party with her Mom and looking forward to it for many weeks (which as we all remember is a really long time when you’re five). But as the day grew closer Mollie’s mom realized there...
by Heidi Webb | Mar 17, 2020 | 2020
For many years when I’ve talked of divorce I’ve said if only our society recognized the toll it took on individuals and families––if it were considered an epidemic––the Center for Disease Control (CDC) would have made significant interventions. I made those comments...
by Heidi Webb | Mar 5, 2020 | 2020
Conversations with my now grown children have shifted from a primary focus on their own needs (mostly) to their more global concerns- some political, much about global climate change and the very real impact they anticipate it having on them and their peers in the...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 20, 2019 | 2019
As I watched the extended family relationships unfold in Marriage Story, they made me think about the complex layered relationships in a marriage. The relationships a couple shares with their extended families are sometimes happy and healthy, sometimes enmeshed, other...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 19, 2019 | 2019
In Marriage Story, tensions over Henry’s custody are of course the most salient and emotionally taxing parts of the story. While the lawyers try to position their clients as the most appropriate person for their child to live with, the clients themselves are at best...
