Welcome to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have real, honest,

smart, and sometimes even hilarious conversations about co-parenting, separation, and divorce,

and all that goes along with that. I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival

guide, and today I want to talk about co-parenting. I read an article in Time Magazine this week

called Raising My Son with my ex-husband is the hardest thing I've ever done.

It was written by a woman named Jessica Henriquez.

She has a middle name in there that I'm not even going to attempt to butcher.

But in this article, she talks about the truth about just how hard it is to co-parent.

And one quote that jumped off the page for me was this. Successfully sharing the person who brings you the most joy with the person who brings you the most pain is nothing

short of a miracle. And I got to tell you, that rang so true for me. And I'm going to be really honest about a few

things here. I talk a lot about my co-parenting relationship with my ex-husband and how well we

co-parent. And that does not mean it's easy. It is literally the hardest thing I've

ever done. As the article, as the title of this article suggests, it is the hardest thing

I've ever done. Because when you get divorced with kids, you don't get to turn around and walk away, right?

You have to continue to engage on a daily basis.

Sometimes with someone who broke your heart.

Sometimes with someone you don't ever fucking want to see again.

Sometimes with somebody who, you know, oh, I mean, I can't, the number of things, right?

I mean, it could go on forever.

The list could go on and on and on and on.

And so I tend to talk about the positives about my relationship, my co-parenting relationship with my ex-husband

for a few reasons.

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