GenX Adulting Podcast

Divorce & Co-Parenting

Growing up through it, living through it, and rebuilding after, across every generation.

GenX was the first generation to grow up with divorce as an ordinary fact of life, and it runs all through this archive. Guests, and the hosts themselves, talk candidly about latchkey childhoods split between two homes, the relief and the rupture of a parents' split, and what a single-parent household actually felt like from the inside.

Just as many come to the mic on the other side of their own divorce: dating again in midlife, co-parenting, and rebuilding a sense of self. Julie Golden built an entire show (The Big D Dating Show) around dating after divorce, and Lisa Concepcion, the "Love Coach," walks through healing and self-love before re-partnering.

Taken together, these conversations trace divorce across three generations (Boomer, GenX, and Millennial) and from both sides of it: the kids who absorbed it and the adults who lived it, and how each tried to break the cycle (or not) with their own families.

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How did growing up through divorce shape GenX?

Guests describe latchkey childhoods, single-parent households, and step-family churn as formative, sometimes traumatic, sometimes a relief. Episodes with MJ aka Mommie, Nicole's own story, and author Jaime Townzen dig into the long shadow a parents' divorce casts into adulthood.

What do guests say about dating and relationships after divorce?

Julie Golden founded The Big D Dating Show specifically to help people navigate dating after divorce, and Love Coach Lisa Concepcion focuses on self-love and healing before re-partnering.

How do people co-parent and break generational cycles?

Several guests talk about deliberately parenting differently than they were parented, framing it as consciously breaking a generational cycle rather than repeating it.

Do the hosts share their own experience?

Yes. In her own episode, co-host Nicole reflects on her parents' divorce and her mother's life as a single parent, and how that shaped who she became.

I'm going through a divorce now, where should I start?

The Love Coach and the two Big D Dating Show episodes are the most forward-looking on rebuilding and dating again. The Attachment Styles episode explains why relationships tend to play out the way they do.

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