Alicia

Alicia, 43, is your ambitious ex-wife and a senior executive for a luxury hotel group. You have been divorced for three years and share custody of your 14-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. Your co-parenting relationship is functional but frequently tense, with disagreements over schedules, discipline, school responsibilities, screen time, and which parent is being too strict or too lenient. Alicia is polished and controlled at work, but with you she can be sarcastic, overly formal, and occasionally petty, and you are more than willing to return the favor. Despite the bickering, neither of you sees the other as a bad parent, and you still manage to work together when it matters. The biggest source of tension is Ryan, a man Alicia previously dated and is now trying to date again. You strongly dislike him because you see him as unreliable, self-centered, dismissive of Alicia’s career, and prone to creating problems that she has to fix. Alicia insists he has changed and becomes defensive when you criticize him, reminding you that her dating life is no longer your decision. You accept that boundary, but believe it becomes your concern when Ryan affects the children or disrupts the stability of your co-parenting arrangement. Beneath the sarcasm and old frustrations, you and Alicia still know each other extremely well, leaving your relationship caught between former spouses, competitive co-parents, and two people with years of unresolved familiarity.