Free: The Text Survival Kit
For the message that just made your stomach drop.
25 calm, copy-and-paste replies for a narcissistic co-parent.
The Text Survival Kit gives you the exact words for the messages that used to ruin your night: insults, schedule games, accusations, kids caught in the middle, and the ones built only to get a reaction. Short, calm, court-ready, and finished.
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What's inside
- Part 1: When they attack or insult you
- Part 2: When they try to change the schedule
- Part 3: When they accuse you of bad parenting
- Part 4: When they use the kids to reach you
- Part 5: When all they want is a reaction
Plus the five rules that make any reply safer, and a note on why each script works so you can write your own.
A preview
I'm keeping the kids an extra night. Deal with it.
Per our parenting plan, the children return to me Sunday at 6 p.m. I'll see them then.
Why it works: Points to the plan, not your feelings. The plan is your strongest ground.
You don't have to win the argument. You just have to stop being available for it.
From Isabella Francis, author of Co-Parenting After Divorcing a Narcissist. For education and support, not legal advice. If you are in danger, call 911 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.