6. Consider the subjectivity of it all.

 

If you’ve been frustrated by the interaction between you and your co-parent, probably everyone is frustrated.

It’s impossible to be completely objective in the middle of difficult family circumstances like these.

Your co-parent may have a different perspective—and many private wounds as well.

The job of co-parents is to accept each other as they are and merge the strengths they bring to the table.

“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”

—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

—Mahatma Gandhi

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow