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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op - only pay attention to what you hear from the children themselves, not the parents[/quote]

This is an interesting attitude to me, as the divorced (and remarried) mother of two teens. I've assumed for years that they are basically ok post-divorce, in large part due to their father and I doing everything we can to be a united and positive co-parenting team. But recently I sat my kids down and flat out asked them. They both agreed that they don't feel too negatively affected by the divorce or the remarriages of their parents. They did point to some things that never occurred to me--for example, apparently they used to hate when we would use a playdate or other social/school event as a hand-over site, because they thought it was awkward that one of us would drop them off and the other one would pick up (I refrained from pointing out that married parents do that too). But overall they feel like things are fine as they are and as they have been. Now that they are older and able to coordinate more and more of their lives on their own, their father and I talk less, which I enjoy, but they know we are still on the same page on all the important stuff and they appreciate that.[/quote]

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