Episode
23: No Summer Plan Means Your Ex Wins. Every. Damn. Time.
- Podcast
- The Ugly Truth of Divorce
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- Apr 23, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1019
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Summary
Your ex is already planning to ruin your summer. Is your parenting plan ready? I'm not being dramatic. Summer break is the number one gap I see in parenting plans and it blows up every single year like clockwork. You think your ex will just go along with the summer camp plan. They won't. You think the school year schedule carries over. It doesn't. You think common sense will prevail. Oh honey, it absolutely will not. In this episode I'm breaking down the five worst examples of summer parenting plan language I've seen and let me tell you, some of this shit will make your jaw drop. We're talking attorneys getting paid good money to write sentences like "parents will cooperate regarding summer camps" and calling it a day. That's not a plan. That's a disaster waiting to happen with a legal header on it. Because here's the truth: high conflict people don't plan. They never did. And a parenting plan with no summer section is their favorite playground. Your kid could have been going to the same summer camp for seven years and the second you're divorced, suddenly your ex has a problem with it. No alternative. No suggestion. Just a hard no and zero accountability. That's what no structure gets you. Summer camp spots fill up in January and February. Not June. Your ex doesn't know that because you were always the one handling it. So when you bring it up in March you look like the controlling one. You're not. You're the parent who actually has their shit together and there is a massive difference. Stop letting a missing paragraph ruin your entire summer. Get it in writing. Get it in the plan. And stop letting Larry the lawyer convince you that common sense is enough, because it is absolutely not. Here’s What You Can Actually Take Away: Summer Is Not Covered — Most parenting plans…