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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Caretaking Negotiation

Which is it? Caretaking? or Negotiation?

Thanks to the participle in my title here, you can’t know for certain. Do I intend the word “caretaking” to be read as adjective or verb?

Clear communications make all the difference in the world when we’re talking about successful divorce mediation.

Is your divorce mediation merely a new forum for caretaking? Or a place where you are taking care of negations?

Caretaking — especially in co-dependent relationships — is something from which we must work to detach ourselves in divorce recovery. “I am only responsible for me; I must not wrest responsibility for you.”

But effective negotiation requires us to anticipate and work to accommodate the interests of the other side. That’s not caretaking. It’s the path to agreement: Divorce Mediation 101.

Communication skill may be your number one criteria for picking a divorce mediator.

So, how did your divorce mediator fare in English class?

—posted by Dell Deaton @11:55 PM EST 7/20/2005 [150]

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