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Summary: Accept and acknowledge that you and your ex have to co-parent your children until they turn eighteen.
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Regardless of how well or not you and your children's other parent get along, the fact remains that you must co-parent with that other person so long as there are minor children involved.
This is a hard concept for some separating or divorcing parents to grasp; sometimes, more than anything, they just want that other person "out of their face". But this is not how it works; parents of disunited families will have to interact with each other in some fashion until the children which they share between them turn eighteen, so they may as well make the best of it. Even if you don't care about your own stress level, your children need you to do this so that they can grow up happy and well-adjusted, and not be messed up by constant fighting and stress between their parents.
The ideal situation, particularly for the children, who need both parents, is where the parents can come to respect each other as parents, and work together for the sake of their children. For this reason, it is to everyone's advantage, especially your children's, for you and your co-parent to get to a point as soon as possible where you can communicate with each other respectfully and reasonably.
Of course, this can be easier said than done, but if you take some time to really think about what your children need, both now and for the rest of their childhood (and beyond), it's not hard to see that what they need includes having their parents work together, and having their parents not put each other down, or fight.
In tomorrow's lesson, we'll discuss how you can do that if you can't find a way to do it on your own.
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