Split Up? Tips to Communicate Better

✅ Start with a belief that you both want the best for your children.

✅ Set some mutually agreed ground rules: how, when, where and about what.

✅ Communication should only be about the children, not about past unresolved issues or finances. If needed, set aside a time to discuss agreed adult issues. Changeover ain’t it!!!!

✅ All communication should be civil, respectful, and free from any demands, threats or abuse. It might make you feel good to cut loose but it's never gonna help. It's pushing people away.

✅ Communicate directly with each other. Not though the kids or others. It’s not their gig. Let them just be kids.

✅ Let the kids communicate with the other parent when they are in your care. Set some boundaries around it and make every effort to support it.

✅  PRACTISE  ✅  PRACTISE ✅  PRACTISE

✅ It wont happen overnight. It takes time. Be patient. Be kind. You’re trying to build a new road. One less travelled perhaps.

✅Set a new standard. Set a new tone. Change what’s in your control.

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