How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships

This week on the show, we’re talking all about the tapestry of relationships you have made and will undoubtedly unravel as you wind your way through the divorce process.

Show Notes

Our hiatus continues as we get closer to season five! In today’s episode, we return to season one for a conversation Pete and Seth had without any guests – what do post-divorce relationships look like?

What’s going to happen to your kids and their relationship with former grandparents? Step- and former step-spouses? Former step-siblings? What rights exist to keep these family relationships together? Like ripples in a pond, families big and small alike experience a complex emotional re-wiring when met with divorce. If you’re a party getting the divorce, this part is going to be hard.

This week on the show, we’re talking all about the tapestry of relationships you have made and will undoubtedly unravel as you wind your way through the divorce process.

  • (00:00) - Welcome to How to Split a Toaster
  • (00:29) - Follow-Up
  • (03:46) - Post-Divorce Relationships
  • (06:40) - Lower Your Expectations
  • (07:52) - Common Former Spouse Relationships
  • (13:59) - Grandparents
  • (16:42) - Friends
  • (19:57) - Who gets the hairdresser?
  • (21:24) - Do the kids stay in touch with ex-step siblings?
  • (24:28) - Regrets... I have a few...
  • (25:42) - Term of the Week: Step-Child
  • (28:04) - Who can help with all of these relationships?
  • (31:30) - Wrapping Up

Creators & Guests

Host
Pete Wright
Podcaster and co-host, Pete Wright brings years of marriage and a spirit of curiosity to the divorce process. He's spent the last two decades interviewing experts and thinkers in emotional healing and brings that with him to the law, divorce, and saving relationships in the process.
Host
Seth R. Nelson
Seth Nelson is the founding attorney and managing partner at NLG Divorce & Family Law. He is a Tampa-based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems.
Producer
Andy Nelson
Hailing from nearly 25 years in the world of film, television, and commercial production, Andy has always had a passion for storytelling, no matter the size of the package.

What is How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships?

Seth Nelson is a Tampa based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems. In How to Split a Toaster, Nelson and co-host Pete Wright take on the challenge of divorce with a central objective — saving your most important relationships with your family, your former spouse, and yourself.