Custom Post Type Overwriting another Scheduled Date Field

I have a form that users fill out about events they want to be posted on our site and are emailed out on certain dates. We have one custom post type that is a date of the event. But also another scheduled date of when the post will be put up on the site and emailed out. So we have a separate date field that contains the scheduled date of which our post go out. We continually have an option(multiple choice) to have a reminder sent out on the day event in addition to the scheduled date. If the user selects no (they do not want a reminder set out on the day of the event) then the issue occurs that the scheduled date is overwritten by the custom post type date (date of event). So we have to go in to the entry and change the date back. If we do not change the scheduled date, the post will go will much later then when the user wants it to. I know its confusing to explain but I was hoping someone could help me out, so I can find out why this field is being overwritten.

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