Let us not dress it up. Some days you dread the sight of their name on your phone. The thought of another handover makes your stomach drop. If you have
You set a limit with your ex. Maybe you said you would not answer messages after 9pm, or you would not discuss anything other than the children. It lasted about
The rules keep changing. What was fine last week is a crisis this week. You feel like you are constantly walking on eggshells, never sure which reaction you are about
Most separating parents are worried if they are about to damage their children and their futures. Will they look back on this as the thing that broke them? It is
Most breakups let you walk away. You grieve, you get some distance, and slowly the person fades from your day to day. A separation with children does not offer that.
They want to know where the children are at all times. They question your decisions on your own time. They set the terms and expect you to fall in line.
You are not being difficult. Your ex, on their better days, is not being difficult either. And yet the smallest things still turn into friction. If you have found yourself
In the early weeks after a separation, everything is raw. You are trying to manage your own shock while working out schedules, homes, and how on earth you are going
When you are in the thick of it, arguing over the same things week after week, the idea that co-parenting could ever feel calm sounds almost laughable. So it is
Your ex has opinions about your new partner. Your friends. Your mother, even. And now they are telling you who is and is not allowed near the children on your
