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Understanding a Sensible Divorce
Introduction and Confused Beliefs In our book, Planning a Sensible Divorce: How to Avoid the Toxic Dance of a Messy Divorce, Ken and Allan make the point that about twenty percent of current divorces are fairly amicable. About another twenty percent involve spouses with mental disorders or conduct problems, such as violence, or both […]
Getting Perspective on Being Divorced Parents – 7. The Five Tasks of a Healthy Co-parenting Relationship
Once you have a perspective on being divorced parents, you can now begin to propose doing the five tasks that successful co-parents do: Share information, Build in flexibility in the custody schedule and create easy access between the parents and the children, Coordinate the two homes to be similar, Plan child-friendly transitions from home […]
Getting Perspective on Being Divorced Parents – 6. Your Co-parenting Partner (CPP) – the Other Parent
In this Series on getting perspective on being divorced parents, we introduced not only the need to use imagination but also the need to get information from others (Blog 2). We asked you to imagine your grown children as adults and imagine their perspective on growing up in your family (Blog 3). We also asked […]
Getting Perspective on Being Divorced Parents – 5. Listening to and Learning from Your Children – Now
In this Series on getting a perspective on your co-parenting relationship, we not only introduced the need to use imagination but also the need to get information from others (Blog #2). We asked you to imagine your grown children as adults and imagine their perspective on growing up in your family (Blog #3). We also […]
Getting Perspective on Being Divorced Parents – 4. Listening to Friends and Family
Introduction. In Blog 1 of this Series, Getting a Perspective on Being Divorced Parents, we introduced both the importance of and the challenges to getting a broader perspective on a healthy co-parenting relationship. In Blog #2, we asked you, not only to be curious but also use your imagination. In Blog 3, we asked you […]
Getting Perspective on Being Divorced Parents – 3. Looking Back as Adult Children
Introduction. In Blog 1 of this Series, Getting Perspective on Being Divorced Parents, we introduced both the importance of and the challenges to getting a broader perspective on a healthy co-parenting relationship. We hope we were clear on the benefits of doing so. We encouraged you to be curious and be willing to change your […]