Co-Parenting After Divorce? Avoid These 4 Loyalty Traps (Psychology Today)
How to protect your kids from being caught in loyalty traps when you divorce.
KEY POINTS
Loyalty traps are problematic roles that children assume or are unintentionally put into that require loyalty.
Four of these traps include when a child ends up acting like a spy, messenger, confidante, or ally for one parent.
Research shows that healthy relationships with both parents can help children thrive after a divorce.