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Coming this way or that way?
I don't see nothing that way.
No.
See, mama, look at Dad right over there.
Daddy!
My sweetheart, what's up.
How are you?
Our co-parenting specialist, Alicia, gave us some homework
to do with the kids.
So I'm meeting with Melody and the kids to make it happen.
Well, it's always my hope that Melody and I
get together and do right, you know,
especially for the children.
So I'm hoping that she doesn't push any buttons today.
- Da-da. - Hi, baby.
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The duck quack, quack, quack, quack.
"Qack, qack."
So guys, listen.
There is this really nice lady who Mommy
and Daddy has been talking to.
Her name is Miss Price.
And she is working with us to make sure that your transition
from living with Mommy and Daddy in one house
to living with Mommy and Daddy in two
separate houses, that it's kind of easy and smooth.
So these are family meeting cards.
We're only going to tackle one issue at a time.
We're going to be honest and open.
Who gets to draw the card first? Who wants to draw a card first?
- Me. - Me.
No, me.
OK, Tae can go first.
OK, so let me see it.
It says propose an alternative solution.
So what's something that you, Tae, would like to see happen
differently than currently what's happening,
when it comes to all of us?
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I just want you all to move back together,
and then I don't have to be crying sometimes.
Yeah.
I know.
We don't want you to cry.
Well, you know, sometimes, like, I'm sure you guys have friends
where their parents were married,
and they're not married anymore. - No, I don't have--
And sometimes that happens. Say what?
I don't have any of those friends.
You don't have any of those friends?
Uh-uh.
Divorce is hard on adults, so you can imagine how
it affects children as well.
I think sometimes we don't put enough effort and emphasis
to truly make sure that the children's mental and emotional
is intact and on point.
Martell and I definitely have a lot of work to do still,
when it comes to co-parenting.
Really put our children first.
Not just talk the talk but walk the walk.
I think this is the first step of many.
All right, pull one, Mariah.
Ask a question of any family member you choose.
Mom, have you ever thought about marrying somebody else?
[CHILD GASPS]
Have I ever thought about marrying somebody else?
Yeah.
Um, I have not.
Why are you so excited about that?
Because I don't want a stepdad.
- You don't want to stepdad? - Uh-uh.
Or a stepmom. - Or a stepmom?
- Uh-uh. - How do you know you don't?
Well, can we just not say stepmom or stepdad?
Could we say maybe a bonus mom or a bonus dad?
Like, an extra person to do fun things with you and to maybe
sometimes say yes to stuff when Mommy or Daddy don't say yes.
I feel weird because if, like, anybody knows us,
I think they're all wondering who are they.
And I, um, I tell them that they're,
like, basically of my stepparents,
like, my bonus parents.
If we ever were to get to that point, we'll have
a full-out discussion.
But right now, Mommy and Dad, we're not even thinking about,
um-- - Marrying of another--
MARTELL HOLT: -of marrying anyone else.
Right.
But when time comes, we'll get to that, OK?
It's never going to come, ever--
- If it gets to that point. - --in y'all's life.
All right.
Or I'm going to break it down.
I do not like a bonus mom or a bonus dad
because I do not like people kissing me on the cheek.
Well, with this co-parenting homework from Miss Price,
Melody and I, we seem like we've been
getting along a little better.
She's not saying anything wrong.
I'm not saying anything negative either.
So that's how I want it, instead of seeing
us fussing and fighting and things of that nature,
you know.
We had something special and I don't
feel that we should continue to ruin the little bit
that we have left, you know.
So I love this moment.
OK, so maybe--
let me-- give me the cards back and maybe what we can-- there
we go, perfect.
There you go.
I think we're all doing good to the--
I guess we're still trying to adjust to Mommy and Daddy
not being together, being in one house.
Do you guys feel happy?
- About y'all being-- - No.
--apart?
No, you know, just about, you know,
how you get to spend time with Mommy for seven days.
You come with Daddy and spend time with Daddy.
No, sir.
I want to spend all of my time with both of y'all together.
I feel like it's easier in one--
like, all of us living in one house
because then we both get to spend,
like, each at the same time, with each other
at the same time.
Well, let me ask you guys this, OK.
Do you feel like you guys get to see Mommy being happier now
or happier before?
Maybe y'all can start, like, hanging out together a lot
and talking on the phone a lot.
And then maybe one day, maybe y'all can
come back together and love each other forever and forever.
And then y'all can remarry.
Where do you get that from?
I just think about stuff and I just say it out loud.
OK.
Y'all are some great thinkers, so I can believe that.
I have one question to ask both of you guys.
OK.
Do any of you guys have secret crushes?
Secret crushes?
Yeah, I have a secret crush.
I'm going to-- I'm going to keep it a secret, unless y'all want
me to tell y'all who it is.
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