TL;DR Christmas in high-conflict co-parenting is all games — and we are not talking Scrabble. Then Jen’s ex finds the pod, and Happy Holidays turns into The Nightmare Before Christmas. Parenting plans in divorce turn into poems, flexibility appears and disappears on demand, and suddenly… it is all a problem.

Welcome to High Conflict Hell.

Long Description: Christmas in high-conflict co-parenting is all games — just not ones you like to play. Then Jen’s ex finds the pod, Happy Holidays turns into The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the rules change mid-sentence.

This episode explores co-parenting during the holidays, including Christmas custody schedules, parenting plans in divorce, and what happens when flexibility is used as a control tactic instead of a tool for kids.

Parenting plans turn into poems.
Flexibility appears and disappears on demand.
And somehow, you’re the problem.

In this episode, Jen and JeniLynn talk about holiday whiplash in divorce: when Thanksgiving is a custody battlefield, Christmas becomes a negotiation, and the same behavior that earned you a rage email last week suddenly becomes “totally fine” this week — as long as it benefits them. It’s a holiday dance nobody wants to do.

We talk about:

• Holiday custody schedules that flip overnight
• Parenting plans that are gospel one day and “open to interpretation” poems the next
• Kids refusing to go, adults blaming each other, and nobody asking what that does to the child
• When flexibility in co-parenting isn’t about the kids — it’s about control
• And what happens when your co-parent listens to your podcast and decides that’s the emergency

We also get into the deeper mind game of high-conflict divorce: how toxic co-parenting dynamics rewrite the narrative so fast you start questioning your own reality. One minute it’s “I never get time,” the next it’s “you’re taking holidays away,” and somehow the kids are left living in two completely different versions of the truth.

And because this is High Conflict Hell, we wrap it the only way that makes sense:
What’s not the worst thing that happened to you this week?
(Spoiler: the bar is still in hell.)

If your holidays are peaceful and your co-parent respects the plan — truly, we’re happy for you.
But if co-parenting during the holidays feels like emotional warfare…

Welcome, Hellion.
You’re exactly where you belong.

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