Episode 282: Knowing Your Dealbreakers (The 7-Step Divorce Mindset Reset)
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
What are your divorce dealbreakers? In the final installment of my divorce mindset reset series, I share why knowing your dealbreakers is important before you enter into your divorce proceedings. I discuss the work required to determine what they are and offer insight into why you should stick to them as you move through your divorce.
Overall, knowing your dealbreakers helps you prioritize what matters most so you can maintain focus during your negotiations.
You'll hear:
- Why it is important to know your dealbreakers before you enter into your divorce proceedings
- Non-negotiables are the issues you feel strongly about and refuse to compromise on, even if it means presenting them in front of a judge
- Some considerations and strategies for dealbreakers in a high-conflict divorce
Resources & Links:
7-Step Divorce Mindset Reset Bundle
Phoenix Rising: A Divorce Empowerment Collective
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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. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome back, everyone. So this is our final episode in this series, the seven-step mindset reset series. I really hope that you guys have gotten a lot out of this because I really feel like this is just some really important foundational work. So I hope that you have found |
| 1:12.2 | it useful. All right. So we're going to dive right into the importance of knowing your deal breakers. |
| 1:19.1 | So what does this mean? I want you to know your deal breakers before you really enter into this |
| 1:25.8 | because, and look, if you've already entered into it, |
| 1:29.6 | obviously, it's not too late, right? We need to know your deal breakers. Whenever you know |
| 1:33.7 | them, we need to know them. But it helps you prioritize what matters most so that you can |
| 1:39.5 | maintain focus during your negotiations. So deal breakers are your non-negotiables. |
| 1:46.8 | These are things that, like, they're basically non-starters. For example, if your spouse is abusive |
| 1:57.4 | and you are concerned for your children's safety. |
| 2:02.5 | It might be, let's say if they're an alcoholic, right? |
| 2:05.3 | It might be that your deal breaker is like you, it's a non-starter for you to not have, |
| 2:14.1 | for them to not use sober link, right? |
| 2:17.1 | So if they're like, if they refuse to use sober link |
| 2:20.8 | you're literally not going to talk about anything else you're that that's it you're calling off |
| 2:25.1 | negotiations and you're willing to go to court over that you're willing to sit in front of a judge |
| 2:34.0 | present the evidence of their alcohol use, and the ways in which with evidence it has endangered your children. |
| 2:42.6 | And you feel strongly enough about the strength of your evidence that you do think that this is something that a judge because you |
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