Ex-etiquette: How to set healthy co-parenting boundaries
Q. I often hear, “Set clear boundaries” when co-parenting, but my co-parent just does what he wants and I am left frustrated and angry because he doesn’t listen to me.
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Ex-etiquette: I think my boyfriend is cheating
Q: A few months ago, he stopped coming home every night. When I ask him where he has been, he says he was drinking with friends and stayed at one...
Ex-etiquette: New wife not welcome at parent-teacher conferences
Q. Six months ago, I married a man who shares equal custody of his three children with their mother. I get along great with the kids, and they have often...
Ex-etiquette: I miss my son’s former girlfriend
Q. My 21-year-old son who lives with me recently broke up with his girlfriend of two years. This was not a mutual split. He has found another, moved on and...
Ex-etiquette: Narcissist is the current buzzword
A. I can’t tell you how many of my clients tell me their co-parent is a narcissist. It seems to be the current buzzword to explain an ex’s manipulative, grandiose,...
Ex-etiquette: Am I being too sensitive?
Q. I am my husband’s second wife and we have been happily married for 40 years. My issue is that whenever my husband thinks of a place or a person...
Ex-etiquette: We bring out the worst in each other
I’m an advocate of cooperative co-parenting. That does not necessarily mean spending time together, writes Jann Blackstone.
Ex-etiquette: Stepmother not allowing children in home without dad present
Q. She asks them to sit outside until he gets home. It appears she hates them and wants nothing to do with them.
Ex-etiquette: New wife forbids husband to wear Father’s Day gift from children
Q. Last year without asking me, his ex bought my husband a present from the kids: a Chief’s jersey (he’s a Chief’s fan). He loved it, but I forbid him...
Ex-etiquette: How do I handle the death of my ex-husband?
Q. Being divorced, I feel like I don’t deserve to be so upset, but here I am crying my eyes out. I have so many I regrets — things I...