BUNS, ABS, AND HEART OF STEEL #3

[TRUSTING]

My daughter came home from school and asked to go shopping. I told her I could not today. She became somewhat disrespectful and I took her phone away due to that. She used the house phone and called her father to take her shopping. She was trying to use our situation to her advantage.

I called my ex and told him what had happened. He was somewhat supportive in not feeding into her manipulation as teen agers will do.

We talked and I told him that even though we are no longer together, I feel we need to be good parents and come together on some of this teen age manipulation.

He agreed. I told him that I struggle with how difficult it is to parent in a divorce. He agreed. He stated he hates what the divorce has caused. He played down big time his part in it, but I felt this was a huge step.

I felt we had actually connected for the first time in many years