How do you co parent with a difficult ex?
How do you co parent with a difficult ex?
Co-Parenting With a Difficult Ex: 9 Tips
- Set boundaries. Children need consistency for them to feel safe when growing up.
- Do not criticize your co-parent behind their back.
- Be a team.
- Focus on your child’s needs.
- Don’t talk on the phone.
- Don’t expect too much.
- Have a support system.
- Go to court if you must.
What co parenting should not do?
11 ways to make shared custody not suck
- Collaborate, don’t litigate.
- Be respectful and “professional”
- Create a parenting plan.
- Remember that “fair” doesn’t always mean “equal”
- Communicate effectively, part 1.
- Communicate effectively, part 2.
- Never insult your ex in front of the kids.
- Schedule parenting “dates”
How to deal with a child with borderline personality disorder?
Custody schedules can be modified to help protect a child with a parent who has borderline personality disorder. Much more than usual, the child needs other role models and carers in their life. Accommodating other carers, especially the non-BPD coparent, can help make up for the parenting deficiencies of the BPD sufferer.
How do you deal with a borderline mother?
If you stay in a relationship with a borderline mother, then all three of these strategies will be attacked with anger, abandonment or guilt. In order to survive, you must understand that you are dealing with a brutal set of conditions. Know what’s coming, set limits actively and be loving when you feel safe. All this is easier said than done.
Can borderline personality disorder affect child custody litigation?
I have found there is a particularly dangerous unpredictability when it comes to child custody litigation if one of the parents suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Do people with BPD get enmeshed with their exes?
So many people, on the other side of BPD – who do not have BPD – do certainly get enmeshed with a partner (on-again-off-again Ex then partner again) and because this is so painful and confusing an incredible amount of focus is put on the person with BPD. This means that loved ones begin in a myriad of ways to lose themselves often.