Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane and Rick talk to a group of listeners about theCase from Hell and how it related to their own situations. Also, Diane speaks to Sarah, as she describes the hell she has been in for several years and the toll it has taken on her and her entire family. To view the Case from Hell timeline details and notes, follow this LINK . To read more about...
Dec 04, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE In this final discussion with a Dream Team member, Diane & Rick hear from Georgia Superior Court Judge Angela Duncan. Not surprisingly, as a former family law attorney and GAL, Judge Duncan has strong opinions about the professionals who let this family down. She also discusses the limitations of the court when the attorneys fail their clients...
Nov 27, 2022•47 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick explore the complexities of psychological child abuse with mental health expert Dr. Kelley Baker. Why did Sarah’s custody evaluator miss this tragic component? There are no clear answers, but important lessons to learn. Want your friends to listen? Send them to www.CPDilemmas.com/hell To view the Case from Hell timeline details an...
Nov 20, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Attorney Todd Orston joins Diane and Rick to break down what it means to zealously advocate for a client, and how Sarah’s attorney has missed the mark. To reach Todd Orston , visit him on his firm’s website HERE . You can also listen to his podcast, Divorce Team Radio , HERE . Want your friends to listen? Send them to www.CPDilemmas.com/hell3 To v...
Nov 13, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane and Rick discuss the case with Guardian ad litem, Debra Hale. she talks about the role of the GAL, misconceptions about their jobs, and how a GAL in this case could have made a huge difference for the children. Want your friends to listen? Send them to www.CPDilemmas.com/hell2 To view the Case from Hell timeline details and notes, follow thi...
Nov 06, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane and Rick host a special 6-part-series for Season 2 of the podcast, showcasing a real-life and extremely difficult custody case. In this episode, they present the timeline that spans 7 years of court documents, police reports, child protective services involvement, and numerous professionals who sadly do not help the children, as they are lit...
Oct 30, 2022•47 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane and Rick respond to a listener review that takes issue with the idea of giving difficult parents the benefit of the doubt. She wonders if that is encouraging further emotional abuse. They respond by explaining the difference between feeling a co-parent deserves the benefit and using it as simply a communication strategy for the child’s sake....
Oct 23, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Thomas from Ontario shares his dilemma about attending his toddler’s doctors appointments, while having to endure his co-parent’s drama or failure to inform him. Diane and Rick use the process outlined in their new journal (DRAGON) to unpack this complicated conflict and teach Thomas how to think differently about it. Ad music credit: Blackcrystal...
Oct 16, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Tamika from Alabama wonders why her co-parent persists in finding the bad in her, especially since she is trying so hard to be a good co-parent. Diane & Rick break it down and discuss how grieving parents or high conflict people use cognitive distortions as a strategy to get sympathy or attention. They also talk about the I Am Non-Impossible j...
Oct 09, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick address a listener question about 50/50 custody and the nightmare of keeping track of clothing between houses, as well as how difficult the schedule can be for kids of high-conflict co-parents. They also talk about the BIG REVEAL and how it will help co-parents learn to develop a habit around managing their conflicts. Support the ...
Oct 02, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Rhonda asks for advice about how to deal with a mom who is falsely accusing stepmom of abuse and who goes to extremes to destroy her life. Diane and Rick discuss various roles in the family system and how they need to be clear to protect the children. Support the show >>>> CONTACT US >>>> RATE THE SHOW >>>> VISI...
Sep 25, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE A listener wonders if it’s healthy to spend family time with her co-parent and her son, even though she considers her ex her enemy! If she keeps pretending to be nice, is that an insurance policy to keep him from taking her back to court? Diane and Rick explore the thin ice she might be walking on that assumes keeping up the facade will be sustain...
Sep 18, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick addresses a listener’s question about how to help her upset daughter whose dad won’t let her go to a birthday party on his parenting time, unless mom agrees to take her. The real problem here is that both parents have put the daughter in the middle of the conflict by expecting her to deliver messages she was not equipped to handle...
Sep 11, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick pose a variety of questions, begging rational answers, about the role of Guardians ad litem in custody cases. Prompted by questions from a professional and a co-parent, they explore how professional delays and continuing court cases can do more harm than good. LINK for Georgia Rules for GALs Support the show >>>> CONTA...
Sep 04, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick address Patrick’s question about his fear of having structure and rules in his home. He worries that after a couple of years of being the fun house, setting rules now might make his house unattractive to the kids. Meanwhile, his co-parent is having to do the lion’s share of parenting and discipline, and she’s tired of it. Interest...
Aug 27, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick address Danielle’s dilemma about her co-parent trying to befriend her parents during the divorce process. She’s feeling stuck in the middle between her whining ex and her too-friendly parents. Also, discussed in this episode is adult children of parental alienation and the stories they have that might help professionals working wi...
Aug 21, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE One of the most difficult situations co-parents have to deal with is when there are secrets kept between them. Secrets are usually pretty important topics and should probably be disclosed to the other co-parent, and if the children are involved in this secret, it creates a whole new layer of issues. Children can’t understand why secrets are kept, ...
Aug 14, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick take a vacation break and replay one of the show’s most popular episodes - Narcissists in the Courtroom. They’ll return next week with an intriguing dilemma called Daddy’s Little Secret. Don’t miss it! For more information about the High Conflict Institute discussed on the show, visit https://www.highconflictinstitute.com/ Informa...
Aug 07, 2022•42 min
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Aaron asks an interesting email question about when it is best to reveal to a new dating partner that you have a very difficult co-parent. Diane & Rick not only address Aaron’s concerns, but talk about dating with children in general. Good co-parenting boundaries and protecting children from unnecessary loss are also explored. Support the show...
Jul 31, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Rachel emails about various things her children report about their father’s house that she is not okay with. Diane and Rick explore the definition of good enough parenting and the importance of discerning the children’s feeling about what they report. Support the show >>>> CONTACT US >>>> RATE THE SHOW >>>> VISI...
Jul 24, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE This mid-week Bonus episode is an introduction to Bill and Jen Rogers’ podcast called Stepfamily Mission Possible . To listen to other episodes about blending families, find them on Apple podcasts or wherever you listen. Support the show >>>> CONTACT US >>>> RATE THE SHOW >>>> VISIT OUR WEBSITE CO-PARENT RESOURC...
Jul 20, 2022•35 min0
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick address Carolina’s email about her hateful ex-husband, who is remarried with a new baby five years after the divorce - but still has a major axe to grind with her even though she is trying to include him in major decisions. What causes some people to hang on to their vengeful attitudes many years after the divorce? Find out in thi...
Jul 17, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Rodney has a two-year-old with his ex-girlfriend. He ended the relationship because she was constantly taunting him into a violent interchange, which he refused to do. Now, she won’t let him see the child unless he comes to her home, which makes him understandably wary. Diane & Rick talk about the dangers of being in close proximity to someone...
Jul 10, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick tackle some big questions they’ve been asked on social media that are common, but don’t have simple solutions. They attempt to give their best foundational assessment of each one, and get personal while they’re at it! Support the show >>>> CONTACT US >>>> RATE THE SHOW >>>> VISIT OUR WEBSITE CO-...
Jul 03, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Attorney, Lauren, emails about her client, who continually gives into his co-parent out of fear she will turn the kids against him. Lauren worries this is going to ruin his new marriage if he doesn’t stop catering to his ex. Diane & Rick talk about the risks of thinking this will fix her anger. Support the show >>>> CONTACT US >...
Jun 26, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Jake emails about how to get his co-parent to follow the weekly email protocol. He’s tired of answering her multiple texts each day and wants to have some peace. Diane & Rick discuss the importance of setting the boundary and staying consistent and kind until the other parent has no choice but to follow the structure. To access a sample court ...
Jun 19, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane & Rick answer Dena’s email questions about her co-parent who tells their 9-year-old that the divorce is all mom’s fault. She is exhausted that he won’t listen to their co-parent counselor or take responsibility for his substance abuse issue. She is tired of adjusting to his lack of accountability and wonders how long she will have to kee...
Jun 12, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Colin writes that his co-parent’s purposeful resistance to anything he wants or suggests is driving him nuts. He wonders how he will stand to deal with her for the next 15 years! Diane & Rick discuss how to prioritize issues and learn to give the other parent the opportunity first to correct a possible misunderstanding before attributing motiv...
Jun 05, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Diane and Rick talk about listener reviews and discuss what they learned in their trip to Chicago, attending the AFCC (Association for Family and Conciliation Courts ) annual conference. They report on themes learned at the conference about high-conflict divorce research and the need for divorce professionals to be appropriately trained before jum...
May 29, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Have a quick question to be explored on the show? Send us a text message! Include your email address if you would like a personal response. Click HERE Andy writes in about his alienated 16-year-old daughter and the hurt and pain of not having a relationship with her. He wonders if she is becoming a narcissist like her mom and if it would simply be better to give up on her. Diane & Rick discuss this very painful and difficult situation, offering advice about how to keep the door open without ...
May 22, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 44
