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How to stay emotionally safe during difficult co-parenting

Are you struggling to successfully navigate your co-parenting relationship with your child’s other parent? If so, you’re certainly not alone. Many parents in Pennsylvania find themselves facing tension and conflict as they work out scheduling and time-sharing arrangements.

But when the friction intensifies, it can negatively impact your child, harming their emotional and psychological well-being. In turn, the other parent might accuse you of causing that damage, which could result in you losing time with your kid.

How can you protect yourself and your child in a co-parenting relationship?

The good news is that you can take control of your co-parenting relationship to a certain extent. You can do so by implementing following:

These are just a few of the many ideas that you can implement to try to protect yourself and your children in a tense co-parenting relationship. But if your co-parenting relationship continues to deteriorate to the point that it negatively impacts your child, then you might need to think about taking legal action in the form of a custody modification.

To learn more about what that might entail, you may want to research the law and your options for support.