Introduction to the blog
Hello. This is a blog about my quest to become a platonic co-parent (aka an elective co-parent) with my friend, starting in the year 2024. It documents every step of the process, and is a mix of documentation of the events, and the feelings it conjured up. I started this blog for a couple of reasons. Firstly, when me and my friend first began discussing the idea of co-parenting together, I did some digging online in the hope of finding some guidance or advice from other people who had been through the co-parenting process. I couldn’t find any at all (admittedly I only spent about 45 minutes looking, before getting distracted by videos of people discovering old cars in garages on Youtube). This made me think that if we did go down this co-parenting path, I could document our experiences and maybe help out future prospective co-parents who were in my current situation. The second reason for starting this blog came hot on the heels of the first reason. What if the blog became an in...