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This month we are focusing on social health and this week I am sharing my experiences and thoughts on parenting/co-parenting. Below is my post that I shared yesterday, just to give you an idea of what you can expect to find there. 9/10 times it will be a video, or live post – I just live in the bush and my internet sucks balls most days so a post was all that would work!

Today I will be sharing more about making co-parenting work and the best ways to do that – letting things go, communication is key and more.

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SOCIAL HEALTH Week 2 Day 2 – Parenting/Co-Parenting

Divorce.

The word that no one wants to hear. But it comes up.

And then theres the dreaded question – but what about the kids? 

What about them? This decision doesn’t involve them (sure it affects them, but doesn’t need to involve them). We chose to get married, we can choose to get divorced. 

Staying together for the kids, that’s bs. Yes of course happy married parents is ideal and what everyone wants… but its not always realistic. 

My ex and I getting divorced is the best thing that ever happened to our kids. Why? Because we both became better parents. That’s not saying we weren’t good parents before, but we weren’t happy. If you aren’t happy in one aspect of your life, it trickles over to all aspects of your life. No matter how hard you try to not let it. And you may not even realize it, until things change and you look back. 

We got divorced and of course at first it was hard and sad and honestly the worst time in my life up until then… but then once I got past all that, I was happy. I was happy for the first time in a long while. And he was happy. Our children deserved this. They deserved happy divorced parents. Rather than together miserable parents. 

And because we didn’t ‘stay together for the kids’, we didn’t get to the point of hating each other, resenting each other, not being able to stand each other. Which now makes it all that much better for our kids since we get along, we do family things together. 

Now I am not in any way saying you should get a divorce – there is obviously way more to it then just the kids. I am just saying if you are staying together only for the kids, think about how that affects them. What that is teaching them about what a marriage looks like, about how in love couples treat each other, and what a family looks like. 

My kids don’t remember mommy and daddy being together, but I bet if you asked either one of them they would say we have the best family – its just one big blended family where everyone is happy. 

What I am trying to say is, kids don’t NEED their parents to be married, kids NEED their parents to be happy. Happy parents teach us more, have more fun with us, show us how relationships should be, and so much more. 

Anytime anyone says divorce is giving up, especially if you have kids I can’t help but point out that kids deserve happy parents – if that means happy divorced parents rather than miserable together parents- then thats what they deserve. 

Divorce was the best thing to happen to my kids.

I mean look at them, I’d say they are thriving wouldn’t you?

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Much love,
Jody ❤