Narcissist Behavior Q&A

🧒 The kids mean I can never fully cut contact

Co-parenting does not obligate you to receive their personal feelings and messages every time.

The short answer

The marriage can end while the parenting contact remains. Settling its content and method in advance helps.

Scenes like this

  • A check-in about the child kept circling back to the relationship.
  • School pickup times became the pretext for constant calls.

How to tell the difference

Separate the contact the child needs from the reconciliation talk and the blame.

When this happens, try this

  • Honor the court order and the custody agreement precisely — and limit the topics strictly to the child's health, schooling, and essential costs.
  • If phone calls keep igniting into emotional fights, move everything cleanly to a co-parenting app or text only.

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