Episode 196: Listener Q&A: Finances, Decisions, and Co-Parenting
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
I am back with a new episode this week and it is a listener Q&A! You've submitted your questions and stories on topics such as co-parenting, how to make hard decisions about divorce, and how to survive financially, especially if you can't afford to leave your marriage. Tune into this episode to hear my answers to these questions and more.
In this episode, I answer these listener questions:
- My partner and I have had a separation conversation with our children. We've separated and now we're moving on to the divorce process. When do we tell our children about the divorce?
- How can I create healthy boundaries and life for myself, when my ex-husband and I have a young child together?
- I cannot afford to leave and am overwhelmed with things like car maintenance, home maintenance, and repairs. How can I survive financially?
- Should I move back to my home country with my two kids where I have a support system or stay in the country where their life is and their father is, but where I'm alone?
- How do I cope with the number of decisions I must make while going through a divorce - such as what lawyer to hire, what to do with the family home, and what custody schedule to follow?
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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. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:43.0 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. It's a welcome back to me. I've been off for a few weeks for the |
| 0:50.3 | podcast because I was so sick, you guys. I had RSV and I'm still, |
| 0:56.2 | excuse me, still coughing up a little bit, but so much better. But, who, man, that was really |
| 1:03.4 | brutal. It was really difficult. It all happened over our trip to New York that got completely |
| 1:09.5 | thwarted. You know what? I'm just going to tell you this |
| 1:11.5 | quick story. So we were scheduled to go to Mexico for Thanksgiving where we haven't been in like |
| 1:21.1 | five years, but my stepmother has a condo, two condos actually, on Isla Mujarez, which is a tiny little island off the coast of Cancun. And she's basically, she's had this condos most of her life since like the 60s. They started the condo complex there. Her family did. Anyway, so we used to go every Thanksgiving and then the pandemic happened. And it's just one thing after another. We have not been able to go for a really long time. So this year was like, we're going to do it. We're going to do it. We're going to do it. We're going to do Thanksgiving in in Isla, which is our favorite thing to do. And again, we haven't done it for five or six years. And so we booked I was like, okay, I'm doing it. We're doing it. My dad was like, I booked my tickets. We're doing it. I was like, so I booked tickets. And you know how expensive airfares have been. It was crazy, but I was like, we are fucking doing this. It was |
| 2:06.2 | me and my son and his girlfriend. And then a few weeks after I booked the tickets, my stepmother |
| 2:12.3 | had a issue come up. And her doctors were like, listen, if it wasn't treatable, we'd say, go to Mexico |
| 2:19.1 | and enjoy yourself. But it's treatable. So don't go to Mexico and stay home and let's start |
| 2:24.6 | treatment. So Mexico was off the table. So fortunately, I had booked through JetBlue and I |
| 2:32.6 | always get the insurance and then I can |
| 2:35.4 | where I can change the ticket. We changed the ticket. I was like, all right, that's fine. We'll all just go to New York because that's where my dad and my stepmother live. I was like, we'll do five days in the city. We'll do a really long trip. We'll do five days in the city and then we'll do five days out in East Hampton with my dad and my stepmom. So then I got RSV and everyone was freaking out because I can't bring RSV to the Hamptons with my stepmother who's in treatment and immune compromised and 83 and all of that. |
| 3:01.4 | But it was like far enough away that I was like, I think I can do this. |
| 3:04.3 | It's like I've been sick for over a week now. |
| 3:07.1 | Like surely I'm not contagious if I'm still coughing, but like surely I couldn't can do this. It's like, I've been sick for over a week now. Like, surely I'm not |
| 3:08.2 | contagious if I'm still coughing, but like, surely I couldn't be contagious. Anyway, then she |
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