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10 Strategies For Successful Co-Parenting After Divorce
When your fairy tale comes to an unhappy end, you’ve still got kids to raise. How do you maintain a successful co-parenting relationship with someone you once loved?
When we become a parent with someone we love, we never imagine a future in which we’ll be a single parent. We never envision stepparents, custody battles, visitation schedules or child support. When that becomes our reality, we’re often completely unprepared for how to deal with it.
While it may not be the reality we ever expected to live with, once it’s here, we need to adapt and find a way to make it work. But if we weren’t expecting it and we’ve never done it before, what do we do? How do we know how to navigate this new life?
Here are 10 tried-and-true strategies that can help you find your feet and have a successful co-parenting relationship after divorce.
Get over the dream of what your family was or “should be”
This is the first strategy, but it can also be the most difficult. You had a beautiful dream of what your family did look like, or what you wanted it to look like. Maybe you had this idea that you would have one marriage that…
