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When co-parents carry divorce patterns into parenting

My ex-husband and I are trying to co-parent well after a difficult divorce but we keep falling into our old communication patterns - the same defensiveness, the same assumptions about each other's motives. Our kids can feel the tension even when we think we're being civil.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Former partners must learn to collaborate in one domain while processing unresolved dynamics from another, with children witnessing the success or failure of this integration.

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