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When friends consider co-parenting together

My best friend and I are both in our late thirties and single and we've been talking about having kids together as co-parents but now that we're actually researching sperm donors and legal agreements it feels huge and I don't know if our friendship can handle this level of life entanglement.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fantasy of platonic co-parenting meets the reality of binding two lives together in ways that friendship was never designed to hold.

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