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I just keep going back to Heather, or not Heather, what's her name? Shannon Bedor, where she was always calling you, Megan Keen Edmond.

She loves to call people by the full. I know, I'm not a serial killer. I don't have three names.

Not really. Are you still legally Edmond? No. Fuck no. Fuck no. I should not drop that fast enough.

I have Megan Keen on the podcast today. Hey babe, we have a lot in common. Oh my gosh, we do. It's nice to finally meet in person and discuss.

I feel like I know you because I watch do on TV. We've been texting. Right, right. Yeah.

And I had no idea how similar our situations were. They're very, very parallel.

Which reminds me, you used the term parallel parenting. Yeah. I love that. Did you coin that?

Well, I actually realized that it was a thing when I was talking to someone who had, you know,

bent through a lot of relationships and custody things. And he was like, you don't co-parent with that person. You pair a lot.

I love that. And I heard that from you. And that's exactly what I'm going through.

It's a nice way to say that there's no co-parenting relationship. No, and I don't want a co-parenting relationship.

I mean, ideally, I think it would be nice to have one, but like, you have to be a human being first.

That's why I don't want one. I can't co-parent with a controlling narcissist.

No, you can't. And I absolutely know that. Yeah. That's fact. I live it every day.

Torture. Yeah. I recently got a temporary restraining order that I then I dropped just because we entered into a consent agreement.

Okay. But not before my ex had to use his mouthpiece to go slam me in the tabloids about how I'm, you know,

attempting to get a restraining order. And therefore, I'm like diminishing the abuse of like the real abuse that women go through in domestic violence cases.

And that's, it's such bullshit because the law doesn't recognize, I think it's starting to,

but it doesn't officially recognize emotional abuse as a form of domestic violence. Right. And I just know that I've had to work through so much.

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