#coparenting

#coparenting

One of the biggest adjustments newly minted single parents must make following a separation or divorce is adjusting to holidays without their children present, or present for only part of the time. Whether the kids are babies, teens, or young adults, the result can be an unfamiliar silence that can take some getting used to. As a family law attorney and divorced single mom (of four adult children) who remarried a divorced single dad of two more than a decade ago, my husband and I have walked (and are still walking) this road, just like you may be this holiday.

"My daughter's dad and I really pride ourselves in the fact that we have not fought in front of her since she was like six months old. She's almost five now, and we don't talk crap on the other parent in front of her," TikTok mom, angelehlers_, explained. "So, she has no idea why we wouldn't be friends, why we wouldn't all hang out. Like she just genuinely just thinks like we're all just like friends, like her best friends,"