How To Survive Co-Parenting With Your Ex AND Their New Love
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- August 28, 2017

You can survive just about anything when you focus on your kids.
Some people have it so easy. They’re actually friends with their ex and so learning how to co-parent after divorce comes naturally and easily for them.
Then there’s everybody else who has ever gotten divorced with kids. Everybody else struggles with how to survive co-parenting because they have to stay in regular contact with their ex and it’s about the last thing they want to do.
Then when their ex finds a new love and introduces this love to their children, their struggles escalate dramatically.
As uncomfortable, complicated and horrible as it feels, there are really only two reasons why anyone has difficulties with figuring out how to survive co-parenting with their ex and their new partner:
- Your ex and/or their new love is toxic.
- You’re not over your divorce yet.
Although it’s really easy to place the blame for all the trouble you’re having at your ex’s doorstep (and in some cases, that’s EXACTLY where it belongs), it takes a very strong person, just like you are, to consider the possibility you’re not quite over your divorce.
You know that your troubles with co-parenting are stemming largely from your need for more healing…
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