Spouse Communications and Activities Sample Clauses

Spouse Communications and Activities. We’ll use our good judgment to communicate constructively. We’ll speak with each by phone about four times a week and will use email and text messaging as needed. We agree to courteously disengage from any conversation that is not going well, and each of us will respect the suggestion of the other that a conversation be stopped and tried later. We’ll practice a new level of consistent courtesy in our communications. We’ll use what a handout on xxx.XxxxxXxXxxx.xxx calls “joint legal custody,” meaning that we will make the major child-related decisions (schooling, medical care, counseling, discipline, etc.) in the same cooperative way we would use if we were happily under the same roof. We’ll promptly share all important child-related information, sincerely seek out and hear each other’s suggestions for meeting our children's needs, come to joint decisions, and cooperatively implement those decisions. We both agree to be open to dates without the children. Assuming that neither of us is dating anyone else, we’ll both be free to invite intimate contact, and we will both remain free to accept or decline. We both agree that we will promptly let the other know of the intention to date anyone else. We’ll look over the Care List for ideas on things we may wish to do together or offer each other in the future.