TY - JOUR
T1 - Another kind of ambiguous loss
T2 - Seventh-day adventist women in mixed-orientation marriages
AU - Hernandez, Barbara C.
AU - Wilson, Colwick M.
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PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - Narratives of five Seventh-day Adventist heterosexual women whose mixed-orientation marriages ended were analyzed through the lens of ambiguous loss. Thematic coding identified a wave-like process of changing emotional foci that emerged from their experience during marital dissolution. Elements of ambiguous loss included boundary ambiguity, retrospective interpretation and grieving, secrecy, and renegotiation of spiritual beliefs. A process model is introduced and elucidated through participant narratives. Treatment suggestions and implications for further study are provided. Copyright 2007 by the National Council on Family Relations.
AB - Narratives of five Seventh-day Adventist heterosexual women whose mixed-orientation marriages ended were analyzed through the lens of ambiguous loss. Thematic coding identified a wave-like process of changing emotional foci that emerged from their experience during marital dissolution. Elements of ambiguous loss included boundary ambiguity, retrospective interpretation and grieving, secrecy, and renegotiation of spiritual beliefs. A process model is introduced and elucidated through participant narratives. Treatment suggestions and implications for further study are provided. Copyright 2007 by the National Council on Family Relations.
KW - Ambiguous loss
KW - Family systems
KW - Loss
KW - Mixed-orientation marriage
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2007.00451.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2007.00451.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0197-6664
VL - 56
SP - 184
EP - 195
JO - Family Relations
JF - Family Relations
IS - 2
ER -