co-parenting

So my children’s father is notorious for not ever having anything that fits our children..barely ever takes them shopping whatever I get it dads don’t love that kind of stuff typically. I try to not let it bother me even if it bothers our kids because it’s not my house. Well recently I took our...

Am I the A.H. If when trying to co-parent I'm always willing to compromise for the sake of the children. But the other only wants to compromise when it looks good on their behalf to others/when it's convenient for them. I just don't reply sometimes when they do that or do I let their actions...

TLDR: ex won’t make up for missed visits, is this reasonable? My ex sees my daughter every other weekend. He won’t see her for any extra days (including holidays)..he wants to stick to the schedule and only the schedule which is every second weekend. When my ex cancels a weekend with her...

My child’s father hadn’t seen our 4YO son for 3 weeks due to him having the D&V bug, then and ear infection and then another sickness bug! Today he finally saw him and on returning him home (while new GF was in far with her window rolled down despite it snowing) he said our son didn’t eat, I...

Last year, I gained full legal custody of my nephew along with my father. Prior to that, my stepmother was his sole legal guardian since he was three, but unfortunately, she passed two years ago. I have been an active part o his life for as long, I would buy him clothes/food/school supplies, I...

An upcoming weekend is one of maybe three weekends this year when my son (Kid 1) has no soccer games. It’s my scheduled time and SO and I planned to go skiing with all the kids (3) including paying for tickets. It turns out Kid 1 has a basketball game. This is a team his other parent signed him...

Holy smokes this is a long post, sorry! Looking for advice on how to navigate a gap in priority in clothes expense, and what items should be duplicated at each home and which shouldn't. I have two 13.5 yo daughters (twins) and 2 grade school aged boys that split their time 50/50 between (my...

My ex just started seeing this girl, we’ll call her Cici. She isn’t close to meeting our son (2.5) yet, ex says he wants to wait at least 6 months and have me meet her first which I appreciate and respect- however I feel like some information he shared with me about her is slightly concerning...

Looking for advice. My ex is stationed in North Carolina while we live in Texas. We have one 8 year old who I basically have full custody of since his father lives in a different state and in the military. My son has his own cell phone where he calls, texts, etc his dad. There are days that go...

My ex has had limited visits w our sons (2.5y/o and 2 mo old). Previously he has only been allowed around them w me present. Lately he has been making more strides to be consistent and so I’ve allowed him to take our oldest for a couple hours of the day. (I have concerns about substance abuse...

We have two sons together and have been coparenting for 8 years. We got together as teenagers and were together for 8 years. We married, had babies, the whole bit. We just didn’t workout in the end. We’ve always been close but his last girlfriend changed that. They were a mess. They were...

I (29F) have a son who is 10 with my ex (29M). Me and his dad split up 2 years ago from him cheating and he has been with the girl he had cheated on me with ever since. They live together and my son is constantly telling me how he doesn’t want to go over there. He tells me how his girlfriend...

What is a good timeline for introducing child to a significant other and or letting the other parent know? My specific situation is the following and I'm thinking that it may not have been the best. As a guy i started dating this girl and let her know I had 2 kids. Kids are 2&3 years old. She...

We told our son 3 months ago (well I led the convo) that we are divorcing. He took it hard and I still bring it up and he’s short with me. I’m renting a nice place 4 miles away and got his room together etc. he has no interest in going over to my place. So, I’ve been just staying in the family...

In the grand scheme of things we coparent really well on the issues that directly affect our child, but I am so easily triggered when he acts like super dad who does it all. How do y’all let the anger and resentment not ruin your day?

Expanding on the title. I'm co-parenting with someone who is controlling, manipulative, and hellbent on 'winning' at all costs. What does she want to win? I have no idea. I wish there we're awards for coparenting, but there are not. Anyway, It's starting to become so noticeable that my oldest...

I would like a outside perspective of my actions. I am on a 3 week vacation with my 7 year old son in a South Asian country …visiting my parents. My X’s parents are 2 hours away from my parents place and she wanted me to drop off my son with her parents for 3 days. Even though it’s my...

I'm 30f with 2 daughters 9f and 3f. I'm No longer with the youngest dad,and is in another relationship with someone who have kids also. The thing is i work 2 weekends out the month and off 2 weekends.I agreed for the dad to get one of those weekends i get one. We happen to work both weekends so...

We had a temporary custody hearing last week and we were granted 50/50 joint legal and physical custody of our children (3 & 5 y/o). She was withholding them before the hearing and tried to get sole custody of them during the hearing (for who know why?). Regardless of her intentions, joint 50/50...

I’ve been coparenting 50/50, joint everything with my ex husband since late 2013. Our 2 kids are now 12 (f) and 10 (m). Divorce was amicable, no child support, equal split of decision making and time. He remarried in early 2015 and she has 3 children (now 15f, 13f and 11m). We’ve had our share...