When coparenting starts to feel like you’re reacting to the same moves over and over, it can be exhausting to keep your footing and protect your peace.
Many parents know the strain of trying to stay calm, consistent, and child-focused while also managing shifting boundaries and mixed messages. Naming patterns can be the first step toward feeling less off-balance, even when the situation itself doesn’t change overnight. What recurring dynamic have you had to learn not to take personally?
Transcript
A weary group sits in a tense strategy meeting while a leader warns they need new tactics because people are catching on to them.
- People, we need new tactics. They're starting to catch on to us.
- "THE KIDS TOLD ME..."
- SHOWING UP UNANNOUNCED
- TURN "NO" INTO A NEGOTIATION
- "EVERYONE AGREES WITH ME"
- PROVOKE, THEN DOCUMENT
- CLAIM TO BE "CONCERNED"
- MOVE THE GOALPOSTS
- The Narcissistic Ex Committee faced its greatest threat yet: pattern recognition.