Co-Parent Dilemmas

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane &Rick answer Jennifer’s question about her co-parent letting the children watch rated “R” horror movies. They discuss the importance of not fighting against what is out of her control, but finding a way to show interest with the kids to st...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Todd emails a question about convincing the court to order a communication protocol or app. He wonders if he should fight for it or let it go. And by the way, he says his co-parent is a narcissist! Diane & Rick talk about the fallacy of thinking...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick welcome podcaster Karen McMahon on this episode to discuss Lauren’s email about co-parenting with her cheating ex.  What is the expectation when you have been betrayed? How do you help your children who also may feel angry about it?...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Jenny shares her frustration with her narcissistic co-parent, who would rather she disappear than exercise her parenting time. But Jenny isn’t giving up, despite her physical limitations due to a brain injury. Diane & Rick share powerful words o...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Chris writes in and says things were going very well for him and his co-parent until he started dating seriously after several years post divorce. He did everything right, but now things have gone horribly wrong. What is happening to his co-parent r...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick address John’s email about how to help his 16-year-old son when he and the son are stuck between mom and step-mom’s conflict. Discussed in this episode are ways to build a relationship with a teen who isolates to avoid conflict and...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE How do you know when it’s a good idea to seek the court’s help with co-parenting issues? Diane & Rick discuss four things to consider as they process listener Jess’s questions about her uncooperative co-parent. She was hoping he would be more ag...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Kelvin rants about how his narcissistic co-parent steals his credit as a parent and is constantly inserting herself into his life. He asks what he should do with all of his anger. Diane & Rick explore managing expectations, finding humor in the...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Eva emails the show and asks how to move forward with the love of her life and maintain both of their children’s school and activity schedules. The issue is, they live 90 minutes apart from one another. In order to move in together, they either must...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Bethany calls in with a frustrating dilemma, and Jeff emails about a similar frustration. Diane & Rick discuss how difficult it is to be placed in a position of choosing your own peace vs. your child’s emotional welfare. This seemingly impossibl...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Therapist Carol poses a question about a client’s narcissistic co-parent, who apparently wants to buy his 14-year-old’s love. Diane & Rick explore the complications of weaning from the parent/child bond in the teen years, as well as what to say...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Gary wonders what custody plan can work for his two young children, given that their mother plans to move in with someone she had an affair with, who is a foster parent to four children. Diane & Rick discuss how to manage living in the same hous...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE A listener wonders if an infant should have overnight visits with the father while she is breastfeeding. Diane and Rick explore this common concern and discuss what is important at this tender age of development. For a deeper look into what the rese...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick address a difficult listener question about child abuse. Jennifer’s 5-year-old son doesn’t want to see  his dad because dad is abusing him. Mom is worried about her son and wonders if she should withhold custody or make him go. Want...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE A listener surprisingly asks if his ex might be right about him. Maybe he IS an impossible co-parent after all! Diane and Rick address this unusual question in a Jeff Foxworthy style - You might be an impossible co-parent if… Congressional School -...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE In this replay of a 2022 episode (S1:E52), Diane & Rick talk about the personal value of forgiveness and the destruction of hanging on to bitterness. Listener Carolina wonders how it is possible to co-parent with someone who is such a bad actor....

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE In this replay of a 2021 episode (S1:E16), Diane & Rick address a listener dilemma about sticking to the parenting plan or being flexible with weekend time. Australian Blogger Bella Duncan ( www.akidwithtwohomes.com ), a child of divorce, weighs...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE In this replay of episode S1:E65, Diane and Rick discuss an email from Thomas in Ontario, who shares his dilemma about attending his toddler’s doctors appointments, while having to endure his co-parent’s drama or failure to inform him. Diane and Ric...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE In this replay from season 1, Diane & Rick get real about dealing with a narcissistic co-parent. Phrases like crazy-making, gas-lighting. twisting words, and avoiding responsibility, are just a few of the many complaints made by the co-parent wh...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE This emotional episode describes Diane’s experience attending Sarah’s final hearing. Get ready to hear how we plan to hold courts accountable in these complex cases with another podcast and non-profit. It’s time to bring a powerful voice to a subjec...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane and Rick talk to a group of listeners about theCase from Hell and how it related to their own situations. Also, Diane speaks to Sarah, as she describes the hell she has been in for several years and the toll it has taken on her and her entire...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE In this final discussion with a Dream Team member, Diane & Rick hear from Georgia Superior Court Judge Angela Duncan. Not surprisingly, as a former family law attorney and GAL, Judge Duncan has strong opinions about the professionals who let thi...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick explore the complexities of psychological child abuse with mental health expert Dr. Kelley Baker. Why did Sarah’s custody evaluator miss this tragic component? There are no clear answers, but important lessons to learn. Want your fr...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Attorney Todd Orston joins Diane and Rick to break down what it means to zealously advocate for a client, and how Sarah’s attorney has missed the mark. To reach Todd Orston , visit him on his firm’s website HERE . You can also listen to his podcast,...

Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane and Rick discuss the case with Guardian ad litem, Debra Hale. she talks about the role of the GAL, misconceptions about their jobs, and how a GAL in this case could have made a huge difference for the children. Want your friends to listen? Sen...