When you present you’re partner or ex with a fait accompli, you’re manipulating them into taking half the responsibility for your actions.

Whether you’re together or separated, both parents need to operate on a level playing field. Parenting should not be a game that you play in order to get your own way at the expense of your partner, ex or children. That’s simply not how adults should behave.

In this blog I’m particularly focusing on that most frustrating situation – being...