Co-parenting after divorce...

Sometimes it's difficult to navigate the ending of a marriage as well as maintaining a consistent relationship as co-parents.  However, it's the parents' job to remain cooperative and respectful, not because they love the other parent, but because the kids deserve to experience their two most important people get along.  

It is also important for step-parents to allow the original parents to be the co-parents.   In my case, the step-mom has a tendency to cause more problems than help.  She, and my ex, seem to feel that I am easily replaced and have excluded me from many important decisions regarding my daughters' emotional health, physical health, and academics.  I'm hoping this changes in the near future.  

Please take the time to make an honest inventory about what choices you make and if they are for you or for your children.  Let's not make the children who live through divorce also have to live through years of unnecessary tug-o-wars between their parents.