Episode 161: Listener Q&A: Co-parenting with a Narcissist, Dealing with a Manipulative Co-parent, and Supporting Your Children Through Divorce
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this month I aired a listener Q&A episode which ended up being a favorite of listeners, as well as women in my Facebook group. It's important to me to cover topics that resonate with you. So, here I am again, with another Q&A episode! This time I answer four questions around the topics of supporting your children through divorce, including co-parenting with a narcissist and how to handle a manipulative co-parent. I also cover how to communicate you want a divorce to a partner who struggles with mental illness.
If you like this Q&A format, I need your questions. You can submit them anonymously. Submit your questions or story, right here. I hope to hear from you soon.
In this episode, I answer these listener questions:
- Can you provide suggestions or resources for children of narcissistic parents?
- How do you get out of a marriage or co-parent when your partner struggles with mental illness?
- What to do when your soon-to-be-ex-spouse tries to take full custody, restricts parenting time, and claims unfounded allegations, false narratives, or manipulative behavior to make you look like an unfit parent?
- I am worried about the effects on my children after staying in a marriage with a narcissist for 28 years. How can I support my children after staying in a marriage with and then divorcing a narcissist?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.3 | Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode. We have a Q&A episode today. Yay! I also, before I get |
| 0:52.7 | into the questions and answering some of these questions, I want to let you know that in my Facebook group, should I stay or should I go, which is for women only. Sorry, guys. I am doing a three-day challenge slash workshop. It's about should I stay or should I go. And it's going to be |
| 1:14.1 | for three consecutive days. And it's going to be on April 11th, 12th, and 13th at 11 a.m. Pacific |
| 1:25.4 | time in the Facebook group. The topic is should I stay or should I go? |
| 1:32.5 | And the first day is going to be about, you know, but he's fine. But he's fine. He's great. He's a good guy. |
| 1:43.1 | The second day is going to be sort of uncovering some, like, is this abuse? Is this abuse? Is this abuse? Is this abuse? And the third day is going to be going through a little bit of like, is the grass greener on the other side? Because I think a lot of people want to know, like, okay, okay, but is it going to be |
| 2:01.8 | better than this? Am I going to be trading in one set of problems for bigger problems on the other |
| 2:09.9 | side? So those are the three days. It's going to be in the Facebook group. As I said, April 11th, 12th, and 13th at 11 a.m. Pacific live in the Facebook group. So put that on |
| 2:23.9 | your calendar. Make sure you're in there. And when I go live, you should get a little notification. |
| 2:29.1 | If you're not in the Facebook group yet, in the show notes is a link to join and my, and if you just want to search, |
| 2:38.1 | should I stay or should I go on Facebook, it will come up and it should have my picture. So you |
| 2:44.1 | might recognize me. Okay. So back to our episode. So Q&A, I have four questions here. I'm going to keep them anonymous because I think that that's what y'all would prefer. |
| 2:56.0 | So I have one that says, my children are late teens, 17 and 19. Their father, my soon to be X, is a covert narcissist. I would love to know suggestions and resources for children of narcissists. |
| 3:09.7 | Mm, such a good one. So there is a book called Raising Resilient Children with a Borderline |
| 3:16.5 | or Narcissistic Parent. It's by Margolis Philstad and Jean McBride. And I have to be honest and tell you, I have not read this book. |
| 3:27.0 | I have it in my possession. But I haven't actually read it yet. But it was recommended to me. |
| 3:35.0 | I don't, I think by a client maybe. I think that that might be your best bet and your best |
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