Tag: co-parenting

I had been divorced for a couple years when my former husband called with a surprise. Thankfully, it wasn’t the type of surprise he delivered the night he sat me at the table and told me he had been unfaithful for more than a decade and was leaving me for someone he met in Las Vegas.

No, this surprise had to do with our 12-year-old son. He said he was taking him to China for a vacation. I got that feeling you get when you walk in on a conversation and everyone is laughing and looking at you like you know what they’re talking about.

You need a reliable babysitter for date night. Should be easy peasy, right? The truth is that this relationship is a two-way street and sometimes parents, unknowingly, can make the job harder or less satisfying than it needs to be. We reached out to our babysitter network to find out what they love (and loathe) about minding our kids.

Be Ready

You made reservations and even put mascara on, but your date night checklist is not done. First, tell the kids how you expect them to behave for the sitter. When she arrives, act excited to set the tone.

The two happiest days for most couples are the day they get married and the day they welcome their children into the world.  But when time goes on and the fairytale the two of you were once living turns into daily battles, disagreements and just not wanting to be together anymore, the decision to divorce can have a major impact on everyone, especially your children.

No matter the age of the kids, not living under the same roof with both mom and dad anymore is a major life adjustment.

The following is a round-up of news items compiled by the Hitched editors during the week of August 28, 2014.

Mellow Your Marriage With Marijuana?
Whether you're for or against the legalization of marijuana, an undeniable positive is that we're finally putting the resources toward marijuana to have a better understanding of its impact and effects. For example, researchers at the University of Buffalo studied 634 couples over nine years of marriage and found that couples who smoked marijuana were less likely to report "intimate partner violence" (IPV).