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Mojo in the morning. Phone number 844 Mojo. Live 844-665-6548. Text is 95500. Okay, so Kev's got a situation to talk about here this morning. Do you bring your fights and your disagreements between friends

and involve your kids into them what's the story cab yeah man uh kind of tough situation i've known somebody for quite a long time uh not one of the core guys that um you all met at the birthday party none of my best friends but somebody i've known for quite a long time and um josiah has developed a relationship with my friend's child and the latter part of the years of my relationship with a friend hasn't been the best and it came to a point where for peace for safety we no longer needed to be friends and I'm okay with separating that it was a tough decision but it was best for myself and that's what I'm prioritizing right now is my peace and the difficult part about that is not only am I separating myself from this friendship but because I'm choosing to separate myself I'm also choosing to separate my son from the friendship that he had with the other person's child and it doesn't come easy because obviously Josiah has developed a relationship with this person but I think there are times when you have to just cut ties with people really and hopefully you know Josiah can understand that you know this is one of those lessons where you have to

set healthy boundaries is it is it bad enough thing where if Josiah were still friends with him like it would bring negative on josiah or are you just doing that because you're better towards

him yeah i think um i mean there have been threats that have made you know from both sides it hasn't got physical but i could see it becoming physical um and then the thought of mine just came like you know what if it's those situations where y'all just meet at zap zone and go your separate ways and it's like i don't even i don't even think that's a possibility at this point and i think another thing is it just seems like it's a door needs to be closed it doesn't need to be cracked and i feel like if it's cracked it will allow things to take place that just don't need to

take place is this something that's ever happened to anybody has anybody ever uh had a friendship blow up between uh you and somebody else uh and your parents wouldn't let you wouldn't let you hang out with their kids or you wouldn't let your kids hang out with their kids if uh if it's something that's involving you, 844-MOJO-LIVE, 844-665-6548 is our telephone number. I remember when I was a kid, we had neighbors that lived down the street, and my dad was not fans of them. He did not like them. He thought that they were pains in the asses. Like, my dad actually used to call them pain. They're a pain in the ass. And I would always go, Dad, what are you saying that for? You're a pain in my ass. And it was funny because I was friends with their kids. and they would all go over there all the time and we would hang out and I would be like talking to them and they'd be like how's your dad doing and I'm like he's okay like I didn't want to say what's going on because you were aware but when the kids came over to our house my dad was very friendly with them he loved the kids but he just didn't like the parents it's a hard situation but we still hung out with each other so that's where I'm like going oh man that's too bad does Josiah ask for this kid does he say hey

I mean he has

but yeah that's the tough part bro yeah yeah i've never experienced it that way but i've experienced it the other way where the kids have something going on like drama between them and it's like my really good friend's kid does it bring any problems between you and a friend we always have said in our like friendship group Thank you.

that we're going to try to let the kids figure it out as much as possible.

Yeah.

But that is really, really hard.

Are you showing loyalty towards your kids? You know what I mean?

Yeah, but if it were Lucy, for example, and Lucy was being a jerk, I'm going to encourage Lucy to do the right thing and say, you're in the wrong here.

What if their kid was a bully? Would you tell your friend that their kid's a freaking bully?

So that has happened.

Oh.

That has happened. And it makes it, it's very interesting, but I feel like for the most part, the, my close friend group is very receptive to that. And then I have, you know, other moms that I'm friendly with because my kids are friends with their kids and it's, it's a little bit of a tougher situation, but yeah.

Medina.

Yes.

How you doing? What do you think?

Um, so I, my daughter, my daughter was about to be 15 now and me and her godmother. So imagine how close me and this person were. we had a very very strong relationship and we and we actually ended up cutting ties we just were no longer on the same page anymore and that's fine but my daughter was texting her kids and she was telling i found out through the grapevine she told her kids to stop talking to my kids first of all i don't care what we go through as adults those kids have nothing to do with it i my kid is friends with cousins that i don't even talk to so kids have nothing to do with that as long as you know that your kid is in a safe environment at a birthday party or things of that nature then it's fine but i completely understand kevin like having to break that to your child like we are no longer friends and then your child questioning like well why can't i be their kid's friend you know and it's hard and nobody explains that part of adulthood to you and it sucks because it does affect your child but i'm praying for you kev i saw you at the pittsons games on friday shout out so i had a ball so yes but it'll all work out kev i promise i appreciate you medina thank you

uh twyla twyla what's up is that is that you how you doing i said your name like in a question because i uh i know i've before screwed it up what's going on um i just want to say kevin it

took a lot of maturity to decide i'm a you can protect your piece right but i think that you You need to use that same maturity to allow Josiah to be, if Josiah is not unsafe, then allow him to be the kid's friend if he chooses. Because it takes maturity to choose your piece. It takes maturity to exist with another parent without having that relationship and letting the kid choose. But again, that's me. I am a parent. I'm also a therapist.

No, that's an incredible point, Twyla. I can only do so much, though. And in a situation where I can't control how the other person responds or how the other person acts, my full energy is to protect my child. And when I can't control the environment, I've got to control what I can control.

Hey, Twyla, don't you think he should still let Josiah be friends so that he could find out if this guy's talking crap about him? Josiah could be the mole. Come on, Twyla. Twyla, I'm a therapist, too. I don't know if you know that. I play one on the radio.

I'm a emotional radio therapist. That's right. Exactly. And here's every Monday.

We love you. Take care of yourself.

You too.

All right. It is funny, though, you know, all the circumstances that we just brought up, you know, of friends and, you know, when you're a kid and stuff like that, the Shannon one is interesting where when your kids get into fights with kids that are your friends' kids, it really can put, like, a wrench in your friendships. Yeah, yeah. Because your kids are like, Mom and Dad, you can't hang out with that, you know? You're not being loyal to me, whatever the deal is. I'm like, yeah, but the guy's got a great bourbon collection.

But I do like Twyla's perspective, and I love the relationship I have with Josiah, where we can communicate. And sometimes I think we can be stubborn and think that we know everything, and our perspective is the perspective, and our kids can really open up our iris and allow us to see things differently and question our own beliefs. So we had that conversation. He challenged me on some things, but we came to an understanding and an agreement at the end of it that this was what was best.

That's good.

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