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Caussin — who shares Jolie, 8, and Jace, 5, with the actress — additionally reveals his ideas on the potential of his children calling Kramer’s husband, Allan Russell, “Dad” sooner or later.
Jana Kramer and her ex-husband, Mike Caussin, are opening up a couple of “scorching button” matter of their co-parenting relationship.
On the newest episode of Kramer’s Whine Down podcast, wherein she was joined by her ex-husband, the previous couple — who share daughter Jolie, 8, and son Jace, 5, — revealed that the “solely factor” they “battle” about of their post-divorce relationship is Kramer sending Caussin little one help funds.
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Kramer, 40, her husband, Allan Russell, and Caussin, 37, answered fan questions in the course of the episode, with Kramer asking, per a fan, if her ex “dislike[s]” her citing that she pays him little one help.
Caussin laughed, earlier than getting severe as he admitted, “Yeah, in fact. And that is a scorching button for us, and we all know that.”
“You hate it. I hate it,” he added, to which Kramer stated, “That is the one factor we actually, actually battle about.”
“Sure, it truly is. That is the sort of actually true, final remaining resentment,” he stated. “And Jana hasn’t made up that I take pleasure in receiving that, particularly with cash being a factor in our marriage and our historical past.”
Due to this, the previous soccer star admitted that the “very last thing” he desires is for his ex to assume he wants monetary help from her.
“So discovering my means post-divorce, discovering my profession, discovering the factor the place I can present and do all of that stuff has taken a while,” Caussin stated, mentioning discovering his personal enterprise. “It is a battle as a result of I reinvest stuff that I make again into my enterprise to be able to make extra and construct and construct and construct.”
“Belief me, it is my purpose … to point out up and have a paper from my lawyer signing over, ‘Hey, this isn’t your authorized obligation anymore,’” he added. “Like that’ll be probably the most liberating second for me ever within the historical past of Mike and Jana due to our historical past and so no a part of me enjoys it.”
When Kramer requested her ex why he “hate[s]” having her pay him little one help, he continued his clarification, telling her, “I understand how a lot weight you could have with it, the way it impacts you. You maintain it towards me and it creates this narrative that simply is not correct.”
“It is only a final remaining factor conflicting between us that also lingers from our previous. I would like to have the ability to relinquish each of us, all of us, … from that,” Caussin stated.
“That is the final lingering factor between us and my very own satisfaction and ego is destroyed [by] the truth that I’m able the place I have to take it, to be fully weak,” he concluded. “It’s what it’s.”
Kramer and Caussin, who separated greater than as soon as throughout their six-year marriage, referred to as it quits in April 2021 after a slew of dishonest allegations, with the One Tree Hill alum accusing her ex of “inappropriate marital conduct, irreconcilable variations and adultery” in her divorce submitting. Their divorce was finalized in July 2021.
In response to E! Information, Kramer — who has custody of Jolie and Jace two-thirds of the time — provides her ex $3,200 per thirty days in little one help, and pays for the youngsters’s medical health insurance.
Caussin’s Ideas on His Youngsters Calling Russell “Dad”
In the meantime, additionally throughout Caussin’s look on his ex-wife’s podcast, the previous NFL participant shared his ideas on the potential of his kids referring to Russell as “Dad.”
“That is a troublesome one. They’ve by no means referred to as Allan ‘Dad’ at my home,” Caussin stated. “I am not going to take a seat right here and inform them you possibly can’t name him what you wish to name him.”
“Which we additionally had a dialog about that too,” Kramer replied. “I three of us, bear in mind, after we had a dialog final yr once I was pregnant with Roman.”
“And we’re like, ‘We will not say what they’ll and may’t do. In the event that they wish to name him the Easter Bunny, they’ll name him the Easter Bunny. They’ll name him no matter he desires,’” she added. “I am not going to say you need to name him dad.”
Nonetheless, Caussin admitted that it will impact him.
“Nobody has to do any sort of correcting. However that one stings probably the most,” he stated. “If I had been to listen to it, or if the children inform me, ‘Oh, Mother advised us to name him Dad.’ That will ship me.”
Russell, in the meantime, chimed in, claiming that the hypothetical state of affairs “would not occur,” particularly if Caussin was there.
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Kramer added, “Yeah, I feel the one factor is, with now Roman, it’s extra like I nonetheless say Allan 90% of the time, however typically I will be like, ‘Go give this to Dad.’ As a result of it is Roman.”
Caussin stated he is “cool with” that, noting that he is “in a position to separate myself to a level. However he admitted it is the “hardest factor” understanding that he is “lacking moments” along with his kids.
“It’s what it’s. Comes with the territory,” he stated.
Finally, Russell does not assume Kramer and Caussin’s children will ever seek advice from him as “Dad” as a result of they’re “very clear who their dad is and who their stepdad is.”
“It is not like I have been with the children since they have been 1 yr outdated, 6 months outdated, the place it will be any totally different. Positive, typically it would slip out of their mouth positively. I do not assume it’ll ever be a behavior,” he stated. “I do not assume they’re going to ever continually name me ‘Dad.’ I feel they’re at an age the place…this has all sort of occurred the place they’re at an age the place they’re sufficiently old.”
“Yeah, at this level they sort of name you what they name you,” Caussin agreed, including, “However I defend that, it is like, a father or a dad is somebody who gives, protects, takes care of a kid, whether or not organic or not. So, you recognize, you are still worthy of the title clearly. However yeah, the children know.”