Category: Ex-etiquette

I’m an advocate of cooperative co-parenting. That does not necessarily mean spending time together, writes Jann Blackstone.

Q. She asks them to sit outside until he gets home. It appears she hates them and wants nothing to do with them.

Q. Last year without asking me, his ex bought my husband a present from the kids: a Chief’s jersey (he’s a Chief’s fan). He loved it, but I forbid him to wear it because I know who really bought it.

Q. Being divorced, I feel like I don’t deserve to be so upset, but here I am crying my eyes out. I have so many I regrets — things I should have said, things about which I should have apologized that I blamed on him.

Q. My husband did multiple tours in Afghanistan and has had multiple head injuries. When he came home, it was almost like he didn’t know us.