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Glass Houses: Raising Kids With My Ex is a deeply endearing, heartfelt memoir about one divorced couple's commitment to raise their children positively and cooperatively after divorce. When Gail Ragen was a child, her parents built a beautiful glass house overlooking Seattle and Lake Washington. But, when she was ten, her parents divorced, shattering the glass house and Gail's family along with it. Decades later, when her own marriage was unraveling, Gail swore that her three young children would not suffer as she had. When Gail and her husband, Peter, decided to divorce, they couldn't agree on much. But they both wanted to protect their children from conflict. Then, on the eve of separation, disaster - a mass shooting in Peter's office-took the lives of friends and rocked Gail and Peter to their cores. Even surviving tragedy could not save their marriage, but Gail and Peter glimpsed the fragility of life. They focused on what was most important - their children. Gail and Peter agreed that, no matter what, they would put their children's best interests over their own. Through storytelling and funny anecdotes, in Glass Houses: Raising Kids With My Ex, Gail chronicles how she and Peter decided to give up the blame game, move on and be kind to their kids and each other. Together, over fifteen years as divorced parents, they built a new relationship and ultimately found happiness in remarriage to others. Along the way, Gail and Peter moved from a broken marriage to a friendly parenting partnership. Glass Houses includes excerpts by Gail's ex-husband, Peter, and by all three children who share their parents' (and step-parents') pride in their extended, loving family.

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Gail M. Ragen is an attorney, writer, wife and mother of three grown children. She is also an ex-wife and co-parenting partner with the father of her children. For years, while raising children cooperatively with her ex, Gail wanted to share her family's experience in raising three children in two households. Because the story features her children, Gail waited until they were adults and could consent to being included in this book. All three children enthusiastically support its publication. Gail also has the full support of her ex-husband in sharing the following story of how they transitioned from mismatched partners in a broken marriage to cooperative parents and friends.

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