Catalyst
We are in this to co-parent and to amicably coexist together as parents of two young boys.
Client: Essentially, we were looking to create our separation agreement. My wife was looking for separation after other processes that we undertook with some couples counselling that wasn't all that fruitful for us following our own personal counselling due to ultimately my infidelities. My ex-wife was looking for separation, and trying to do the best I could to ensure that she was able to move on deservedly at the pace that she wanted to move on. But that we wanted to develop our own agreement after she lived through my previous divorce, essentially, or post-divorce and co-parenting issues from my previous marriage, that she and I both had a vested interest in taking our separation a totally different direction than we experienced with my first marriage.
Client: We wanted to do a lot on our own to keep our legal fees down and to really demonstrate to one another that we are in this to co-parent and to amicably coexist together as parents of two young boys without the need for lawyer fees and lawyers dictating to us how we felt. We wanted to live our lives going forward still with each other, connected in that co-parenting realm.
Interviewer: Even though you're both on the same page, I imagine it was stressful. Very stressful still.
Client: Yeah, 100%. I've always been trying to work toward reconciliation from day one of the discovery and still, to this day, hold out hope and look for new means of growth and development for myself personally so that I can demonstrate to her in the future if that opportunity arises, that I have changed and that we do have hope for a future.
Client: But yeah, it's definitely stressful. Knowing that I've always been one who has wanted to fix things immediately and have the answers and have the correct response immediately, but also then recognize it needs to be a two-way street, and it's just a one-way street right now. It's not something that she wants. She deserves better, and trying to help her move on the way that she wants it and that she saw for herself and for us and our family and just trying to do right by her finally was a key in all of this.
Client: We wanted to do a lot on our own to keep our legal fees down and to really demonstrate to one another that we are in this to co-parent and to amicably coexist together as parents of two young boys without the need for lawyer fees and lawyers dictating to us how we felt. We wanted to live our lives going forward still with each other, connected in that co-parenting realm.
Interviewer: Even though you're both on the same page, I imagine it was stressful. Very stressful still.
Client: Yeah, 100%. I've always been trying to work toward reconciliation from day one of the discovery and still, to this day, hold out hope and look for new means of growth and development for myself personally so that I can demonstrate to her in the future if that opportunity arises, that I have changed and that we do have hope for a future.
Client: But yeah, it's definitely stressful. Knowing that I've always been one who has wanted to fix things immediately and have the answers and have the correct response immediately, but also then recognize it needs to be a two-way street, and it's just a one-way street right now. It's not something that she wants. She deserves better, and trying to help her move on the way that she wants it and that she saw for herself and for us and our family and just trying to do right by her finally was a key in all of this.
Contact Details
Family Law Group
1579, Hyde Park Road
London, ON, N6H 5L4
Phone: (519) 672-5953