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And when Emma asked if she could spend more time at her dad’s over the summer, he said he had to ask his girlfriend. “The answer was no,” says Hannah. “They said they had no room for her there.”

“It doesn’t take a lot to knock co-parents off balance”

She was surprised that she couldn’t take her kid back to Toronto, even though it was their hometown, and where she had her support system. “There’s no guarantee you have any right to move,” she says. 

“We were negotiating whose happiness mattered more”

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