separation (psychology)

Presents a helpful guide to working through broken relationships and shows the best way to end it, how to get over it, and what to say and what not to say when breaking up.

A young boy describes his feelings of fear, guilt, and confusion when he discovers that his parents are getting a divorce.

When Missy Cord wins a college scholarship, she has a hard time deciding whether or not to leave the security of her small hometown.

Van Leone, broken hearted after her best friend marries the only man Van has ever loved, is inspired by vodka and a "Rin Tin Tin" marathon and buys a German shepherd puppy on the Internet, only to learn, upon delivery, that she has purchased a full-grown Slovakian police dog, whom she names Joe.

When fifteen-year-old Doris's mother, a professional singer, returns to Puerto Rico and her father finds a girlfriend, Doris cares for a neighbor's pigeons and relies on friends as she begins to find her own voice and wings.

After weeks of visiting with her grandparents in their separate apartments, a young girl comes to the conclusion that they still love each other in spite of their differences and comes up with a plan to get them back together.

In the years before the Nazis arrive, two young people growing up in Danish Jutland have dreams of leaving their frigid coastal town while coping with distant parents, eccentric family members, and the cold winds. In the aftermath of their grandfather's suicide, the arrival of puberty and most tragically, the German invasion, their idyllic childhood changes forever.

When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in.

Examines the impact of media technologies such as Twitter, Facebook, text messaging, and Skype on relationships in the twenty-first century, discussing communication etiquette and relationship "rules," and explaining what college students expect from break-ups that have online witnesses and spectators.