Co-Parenting Counseling in Baltimore
Learn how to work together for the benefit of your children.
Co-Parenting Counseling in Baltimore
Learn how to work together for the benefit of your children.
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Co-parenting isn't easy. Co-parenting counseling can help.
Co-parenting with your ex can be so hard.
The same problems that broke up your marriage or relationship haven’t gone away, but you still need to work together with them to raise your children.
If your ex is deliberately making things difficult for you, the stress can be overwhelming. Even if they are not intentionally causing trouble, personality clashes and leftover resentment from the relationship can make working together super challenging.
But your kids are the most important thing, and you so much want them to grow up happy and healthy, even though your relationship with their other parent didn’t work out. And they can.
You can learn to co-parent successfully.
If you and your ex are willing to work at this, you really can create a functional relationship where you work together for the best of the children - even if you don't see eye to eye on parenting.
You can develop schedules, communication patterns, and agreements that allow the two of you to get along and manage the situation at least well enough to make sure the kids are getting the love and care that they need and that you want to give them.
Who is co-parenting counseling for?
How can co-parenting counseling in Baltimore help you?
We can help you figure out what is realistic in your given situation. If your ex-partner is abusive, it is unlikely they are going to turn around and be cooperative no matter how much you try to make them. Recognizing this and learning how to deal with it can be a big weight off your shoulders.
The difficult truth is that sometimes a marriage cannot be saved. But as many divorced couples have discovered, if there are children involved, the relationship between the parents is never truly severed.
Common Co-Parenting Problems We Can Help With
You are not the only ex-partners to ever have struggled with this.
The relationship didn’t work out, and yet you are called upon to work together anyway to raise your children.
It’s common to struggle in the following areas:
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Scheduling
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Different rules at different houses
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Different parenting styles
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Lack of cooperation
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Major parenting decisions
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Communication
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Finances
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Relationships with new partners
We can help you navigate your way through these and other challenges.
What Happens in Co-Parenting Counseling?
Things between you and your ex may already be tense by the time you come to co-parenting therapy.
We’ll help to establish a safe environment where we can tackle the necessary issues without things blowing up.
We’ll discuss what topics need to be sorted through and figure out what can be changed and what cannot, where compromise is possible and where it isn’t.
What we won’t do is get into all the problems that led to the end of the marriage or relationship in the first place. We’re not going to litigate all those old grievances.
Instead, we're going to focus on moving forward and making decisions that work best for you as parents and for the children who depend on you.
Co-Parenting With a High-Conflict Ex
Maybe you’re trying your best – you really are – but your ex is just so inflammatory and uncooperative that things keep falling apart.
We get it. We’ve definitely seen this kind of thing before. It’s hard. We can help you by putting a neutral third party who can guide the conversation, establish boundaries, and keep discussions from turning into the same old arguments.
That said, we can’t make your ex do what they don’t want to do, agree to anything, or be nicer about any of it.
We can help the two of you work together. We can help you do your part. But it is unfortunately the case that sometimes the only way to make change in the coparenting situation is with legal action. We’ll try to help you work with each other peaceably before it comes to that.
In situations involving abuse, threats, or intimidation, meeting together may not be appropriate. We'll help determine whether joint counseling makes sense for your circumstances.
Co-Parenting Success Story
Jenna and Jake spent many years trying to make the marriage work. At the end of the day, they felt it just wasn’t worth it anymore. The anger and resentment that had festered over time had replaced the love they used to feel, and they decided to call it quits.
Soon after the divorce, they found that they had to interact with each other on parenting issues more than they had planned – and the results weren’t pretty. They realized that married or not, they had to find a way to work together so their kids wouldn’t have to suffer.
The Baltimore Therapy Center’s co-parenting services provided a breath of fresh air for both of them to function as the parent they wanted to be.
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