Co-parenting can come with challenges, but for Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson, it’s usually pretty “seamless.” While they do deal with their share of “drama,” none of that is really related to their co-parenting dynamic, Khloé explained during a recent episode of her Khloé in Wonder Land podcast. At the same time, there are moments when Tristan voices a concern or pushes back on something and Khloé feels “defensive,” which is exactly what happened when he told her their daughter’s shorts seemed “too short.”
Khloé said she gets a lot of questions about co-parenting with Tristan.
Their relationship has made headlines in the past due to Tristan’s cheating scandals, but Khloé assured her podcast listeners that their messy past has not influenced their co-parenting dynamic. Still, the dynamic can be difficult to navigate “emotionally,” which is what Khloé struggles with the most.
She recalled a time when Tristan expressed concerns about their 7-year-old daughter True’s shorts. When he questioned Khloé about them, her immediate reaction was: “She’s my daughter.” Sometimes, she has to remind herself that Tristan is True’s father.
She acknowledged that Tristan’s “not wrong” for being concerned about their daughter, but that doesn’t always stop her from being “defensive.”
“He’s like, ‘Don’t you think those shorts are too short on her?'” Khloé recalled. “And I’m like, you want to almost be like, ‘Yeah, she’s my kid,’ but it’s our kid. But you just want to have that ownership.”
She has to remind herself to let Tristan be the parent he wants to be.
Instances like the one Khloé described can be “an emotional battle” for her. “I can’t be like, ‘No, this is my kid,'” she said. “I have to allow Tristan to be the dad, too.”
In that specific situation, that required providing more context instead of reacting defensively. “I’m like, ‘Yes, they’re short, but we’re just hanging out at the house pool,’ because I will send pictures to him or whatever,” she said. “You still want to let your co-parent be the parent as much as they want to. And you also have to give them grace, yourself grace.”
She added that she sometimes has to “take a breath” and remind herself that Tristan’s concern is actually a good thing. “Yes, the shorts are short, but we’re at home lounging,” she continued. “So let me explain the context of those photos. Sometimes I do get defensive internally and I have to remind myself, ‘No, this is good.'”
Khloé said Tristan doesn’t push back very often.
While Khloé might react defensively when Tristan questions her parenting decisions, it sounds like she doesn’t have to deal with this conundrum all that often. Tristan “trusts” her, she said, so he doesn’t really question the decisions she makes most of the time.
“Tristan trusts me as a mom and so I don’t get a lot of pushback, or he doesn’t doubt a lot of the things I say,” she said. “Like if I’m saying I want the kids to go to this school, he’ll probably want to do his own research and whatnot, but he’ll trust that I’m putting them in the best school.”
However, Kardashian fans had questions about this dynamic. Some thought it seemed like Tristan was just too hands-off. “Lol, he ‘trusts’ her to make decisions aka he’s not looking into schools and doctors so of course if she picks anything he’ll go along with it,” one person wrote on Reddit. Another person said it sounded like what Khloé was really saying was, “We coparent well because I take control.”
A third person seemed to agree, writing, “From what she just explained about the ‘co-parenting’ it appears as if he lets her do everything and shows up for the fun stuff.”
