Navigating blended family life & all that comes with it
For some, it comes easy. For others, despite their best efforts, it simply isn’t possible. There are a wide variety of coparenting situations, so I thought I’d focus on the child-centered approach that my Ex and I have implemented in our coparenting relationship. {Disclaimer: My coparenting examples below are only possible because both my Ex […]
Almost every day I find myself repeating the mantra, “not my monkeys, not my circus.” The actual saying is, “not my circus, not my monkeys,” but for me it is the other way around and takes on a pretty literal sense. For those of you who have never heard the expression, it essentially means, “not […]
Last February, after months and months of painful divorce proceedings, Eli’s kids were allowed to move to Southern California with their mother. It was a devastating blow, but given the information the Judge had (a lot of it false and incomplete), it was just how things panned out. Looking back at everything that happened, it […]
This post is going to be a little bit different than my previous posts… You may have noticed that I am one of the very fortunate people, who can co-parent easily and even hang out with my Ex comfortably, but not everyone is so lucky. I know that some of you out there may be […]
