“The first night, Onyx cried out and before I could rush to his side, Tyler was already there soothing him back to sleep. I knew in that moment that although this was unconventional, this was right for us.”
‘A woman had a home that was ‘perfect for a couple that isn’t together, to live together.’ 2 years from the day I moved out, we moved back in together, as a co-parenting family.’
‘If you ask my boy, he’d tell you, he has two dads and two moms. All 4 of us kept Jaden’s needs before our own. A loving, crazy, enormous, blended family.’
“Kristen was young. So young, I had my reservations. I learned very fast that just because another woman was parenting my child, didn’t mean she was taking my place.”
‘His divorce was final in January and by March, we were engaged. This man made me feel special. I was so beat down. I felt like I deserved all the horrible things that had happened to me.’
“Out of curiosity, I signed up on an online dating site. I created a fake account. Something about talking to him just felt right. The girls needed a daddy.”
‘This is my dad, mowing my mom’s lawn. They’ve been divorced 28 years.’
“When my younger siblings questioned, ‘Why is your dad mowing mom’s lawn?,’ I told them, ‘Because she needed help, so he did.’ This is co-parenting. This is how lucky I am to have 4 parents who respect each other.”
‘I bent down to pick my baby up and felt something snap. I dropped my baby in his crib and heard my toddler screaming in the other room, but I couldn’t move.’
“I remember beginning to feel different, very sad. I felt like driving off a bridge was a good idea. All of my inhibitions were out the window. I called my doctor and said ‘Something isn’t right.'”
‘I don’t know how your husband allows that. I don’t know how you’re able to hang out with your Ex. I couldn’t do that.’
“We canceled lawyers, court dates and dropped needless stress. We have celebrated almost every holiday together with our son, so he never has to feel split.”
‘I gave him a letter today as he left for college. I never could’ve predicted how hard that drive away would be.’
“I decided to write Peyton a letter before he left. I needed to get out all of the things I wanted to say to him – the good and the bad. I’m sorry we took the easy way out. I wish we would have fought harder for you.”
‘I am a single mom of 7 through foster care and adoption. Dating is hard enough. Adding 7 other humans into the mix feels impossible.’
“If I can be a honest, I am scared of him too. I worry that no one will ever love them as much as I do. I worry about the logistics of switching off single mom brain, allowing a co-parent to join us. I am afraid of getting hurt again.”
‘I live with my husband, my ex-husband, his girlfriend and our 6 children. We took co-parenting and blended families to the next level.’
“We decided to throw our parenting plan out the window, which was the best decision we ever made.”
‘We grew up in a custody dispute. It went on for our entire childhood’: Dad who dealt with divorce drops knowledge on what NOT TO DO with your children
“If you only see them as pawns in your game of chess; you should be handing them over… not having freaking children.”
