ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the different relationships within family structure, including people's relationship with each of their parents, the relationship between parents in their roles as parenting partners, relationship with siblings, as well as a section on friendships. In order for the couple to co-parent successfully, they will need to identify their strongest childhood experiences and determine whether they are trying to recreate them or reject them altogether. And also they will need to accept that their partner has strong childhood experiences that he or she wants to recreate or reject, and that in order to co-create a parenting plan that will work for everyone, they will both have to take each other's desires into account. The chapter shows two exercises designed to trigger memories that will lead one toward the decisions they made as a child that are influencing ideas about parenting, and one exercise to complete with partner that will identify if goals intersect, run parallel or diverge.
