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Divorce is grueling, but even more grueling is the loss of spending time with your children and learning to put them first, despite new custodial arrangements and bitter emotions. Are you a divorced parent who found it exceedingly challenging to adapt to sharing your children, or a parent who no longer has primary custody, who needed to dig deep to accept your new reality? Other parents just like you can learn from your experiences. We would be honored if you would share your personal journey and how you learned to make it work.
• Are there actionable steps you have taken to accept your new custody arrangement? Did you find you needed to change your mindset, distract yourself, or manage your life change in a surprising way? What methods worked for you?
• In handling the change of custody, what is one thing you would advise other parents not to do?
• Share your watershed moments. How did you know what you were doing, or how managing the change was, or was not working? What did your moment of realization look like?
• What would you like other parents to know about your experience, so they can better mediate their own realities?
• What has the biggest takeaway been for you, the sole action, or inaction more parents should practice?
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