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When it comes to co-parenting, Brian Austin Green is OK with things not being perfect. He opened up about how he’s handling raising his sons Noah, 11, Bodhi, 10, and Journey, 7, with ex Megan Fox in a new interview, and we love the honesty!
“The priority is always to make sure everything is centered around the children’s experience,” said the Beverly Hills, 90210 the star said E! News at Steel City Comic Con on April 13. Part of this means he and Fox have to “choose” [their] battles” when it comes to their sons.
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“People make the mistake of thinking they’re going to do things so that the separation won’t affect the children and of course it’s going to affect the children,” he explained. “The only choice you have is how this affects the children. »
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 09: Megan Fox (L) and Brian Austin Green attend PUBG Mobile’s #FIGHT4THEAMAZON event at Avalon Hollywood on December 09, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)
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This is an insightful perspective and a healthy attitude to adopt. You don’t have to agree on everything with your co-parent or bond thinking it will protect the children from heartbreak. As long as you put them first, you’ll be fine.
“The person you were with and are now separated from, you’re separated for a reason,” Brian continued, “because you didn’t get along. So you can’t expect to get along after the fact to raise your children.
“So you have to decide, ‘OK, it’s not about us getting along anymore.’ This is about us co-parenting, which is a totally different situation,” he added.
It’s definitely not easy to navigate, but they seem to be doing well. In an interview on the Old enough podcast in September, Green said that he and the Transformers star “co-parent very well together”.
“When we need to, we communicate very well, we’re open to things, we don’t take things personally,” he continued. “That’s my goal, and I think it’s his goal as well, that kids live in as healthy an environment as possible.”
Green’s fiancée Sharna Burgess, with whom he shares 21-month-old son Zane, also gets along “very well” with Fox. “We’re lucky because we have a great relationship,” Burgess said on the podcast. “I think what’s so important is that we made it a priority, to be able to interact and have a good time.”
Megan Fox at the premiere of “Good Mourning” held at the London West Hollywood on May 12, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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“I think it’s really important when people separate that they never disparage the other parent or even passive aggressively make remarks,” Fox previously said. The Drew Barrymore Show. “I don’t let anything enter my energy like that when I’m with my kids because if I don’t accept and love their dad, I’m rejecting a part of them because he’s still a part of who they are are. It is in their blood. And it is in their psyche. And they exist because of him. So if I reject it, I reject them.
She added: “It gives your children the freedom to be happy because they don’t have to carry the burden of a war between parents. »
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