114: Long Distance, Child Focused Co-Parenting. Lose the Ego For The Kids with Ashley Machele
The KICK-ASS Stepmom Podcast
Jamie Scrimgeour
4.9 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ashley Machele of Our Splendid Life is back on the show. You may remember her from our 6th episode back in 2018.
If you haven't been with us since the beginning, I recommend going back and listening to that episode.
We talk about Ashley's decision to give up primary residency and let her daughter go live with her father. We also touch on parental alienation and how she dealt with this in her own co-parenting relationship.
Ashley also shares how and why Parallel Parenting works for her family dynamic.
In this episode:
- we get an update on how the long distance co-parenting relationships is going (Ashley lives in New York with her husband and three other children and her daughter lives in Florida)
- how Ashley has learned to let go and gained perspective on what she's really striving for when it comes to her relationship with her daughter
- the challenges that come with long distance co-parenting
- ego and how she's taken that out of the equation
- the power of really understanding your children, how she uses love languages to foster her relationship
- Ashley and I also dive into social media and the struggle that comes with sharing your life and your perspective online when there are other players in the game
This was such a great conversation with Ashley.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello. Welcome to the kick-ass stepmom podcast. And kick-ass step-mom does not mean that I'm saying we are or I am the perfect step-mom with all the answers. This podcast is just about finding a way to live a kick-ass life amongst the extra stress and challenges that come with being a step-mom. It's about doing the work to thrive amongst the, |
| 0:23.4 | well, BS or whatever it is, however you want to word it. And it's not just for stepmums. It's for |
| 0:28.9 | anyone. We have a lot of non-stepmom listeners. A lot of episodes have nothing to do with stepmom |
| 0:34.0 | life. We are just here trying to do things the best that we can and yeah, |
| 0:42.1 | thrive amongst the tough stuff. So in this episode, actually, it's not with a stepmom. It's |
| 0:47.7 | with a mom, a mom of three. Ashley Michelle, you know her from probably our splendid lifeid Life on Instagram, and she was actually the sixth |
| 0:57.3 | guest on the podcast back in 2018, which is just crazy. So if you haven't been with us since the |
| 1:03.8 | beginning, I recommend going back and listening to that podcast episode. We talked about Ashley's |
| 1:09.7 | decision to give up primary residency of her daughter and let her |
| 1:13.3 | daughter go live with her father and stepmom. We also touched on parental alienation, how she dealt with |
| 1:19.0 | this in her own co-parenting relationship. She shares how and why parallel parenting works for her |
| 1:24.9 | family dynamic. And then in this episode, we get an update on how the |
| 1:28.8 | long-distance co-parenting relationship is going. Ashley lives in New York with her husband and three |
| 1:34.0 | other children and her daughter lives in Florida. So there is a, you know, plain ride between them. |
| 1:40.5 | And we get an update on just her perspective on parenting now and what that relationship |
| 1:47.0 | with her daughter looks like and what she's striving for. |
| 1:51.0 | We dive into the challenges that come with a long distance co-parenting relationship, ego, |
| 1:56.9 | and how she's taken that out of the equation and really focused on what's best for her daughter, |
| 2:01.9 | the power of really understanding your children, and how she uses the love languages to foster |
| 2:06.8 | her relationship. Ashley and I also dive into social media and the struggle that comes with |
| 2:12.7 | sharing your life and perspective online when there are other players in the game with very different perspectives. |
| 2:19.5 | Remember, two different people can experience the exact same situation in two very different ways. |
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