Your Kid And Your Ex’s Weekend Custody: SMS Can Reduce The Pain
by Russell Shaw
I’ve just read an article in which an athlete (you wouldn’t know of him) is raising his three-year old daughter. No longer even a friend anymore, the child’s mother sees the daughter every once in a while.
Got me to thinking what often happens in breakups and divorces. When they are over, they are over to the extent that the two former lovers can’t even bear to hear the sound of the other’s voice.
This actually would mark an emotionally protective role for SMS.
So let’s just say I am the parent of the three-year old, don’t want to talk to my ex-wife even though we have to coordinate the Saturday morning custody-driven drop-off.
So I SMS my ex: I’ll bring (insert child’s name) to the park at 11 a.m. Saturday. See you then.
So then my toxic ex-wife (I am speaking rhetorically, mind you) SMS’s me back re: “Confirmed, I will be there).
So then you drop off your kid and the toxic ex-wife picks h/her up.
There may or not be pain from seeing tox ex-wife for the Saturday play-time, custodial hand-off, but at least you don’t need to hear her voice. Or her yours.
SMS handles all the communication.
