Fighting in a relationship is not uncommon. This is true for couples who are still married, and those in the midst of a divorce. Divorces can be hard on children regardless of the level of conflict. But when divorcing parents choose to fight in front of their children, it can make the process much more difficult.
If your goal is to keep your children safeguarded from emotional and psychological damage during your divorce, you should do your best to keep them away from the conflict.
Here are a few tips for keeping your children away from the conflict:
- Conflict Location – If you and your ex begin arguing, ensure that your children are in a location where they will not see or hear you. This physically keeps them away from the argument and the harmful affects it can have on them.
- Venting – After an argument, people often vent about their feelings. If you need to vent after an argument, again make sure you don’t do it around your children. Just hearing the negative comments you have to say about your ex can cause them damage as well.
- Focusing on Them – When people are in high conflict situations, they can expend a lot of their emotional energy during a fight, and then they are left feeling drained. When this happens, children sometimes don’t get the attention they deserve because parents are too exhausted from arguing with their exes. When you limit the amount of conflict you engage in with others, you conserve emotional energy that you can use to focus on your children instead.
Read more about conflict and fighting on the Child Centered Divorce blog.
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