A divorced father shouldn't communicate with his ex through the kids or take responsibility for her problems. Keep contact text-only, watch for triangulation tactics, and protect your kids from toxicity at home.
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Don't talk through your kids. She's gonna try to use your kids. Number 3, boundaries. You got to set the boundaries with toxic people. If she's being high conflict with you, text only. Don't make any phone calls. Don't talk to her. Text only. Don't talk through your kids, right? Set that boundary. Whatever she says bad about you, oh, that's her opinion. That's what you tell the kids, that's her opinion. Just, just cut it there. Don't stoop down to her level, okay? But you got to build boundaries where she's not able to contact you directly on the phone anytime she wants. And those old habits, if something broke in house, that's not your responsibility. Car broke down, have her call AAA. That's not your responsibility any longer. So you got to build boundaries with these toxic people, and as well as all of her flying monkeys, right? Anybody that she's using for triangulation to come to you and, and try to force you to do certain things. They're going to try to use your kids. She's going to try to use your kids to bring this toxicity in your life. And you set that boundary. You say, no, we will not talk like this in this house. We only talk positive here, okay? Accept, adapt, rebuild.