Dear Valued Users,
It's with a heavy heart that we announce the permanent closure of StepTalk.org on August 31st, 2025.
This decision wasn't an easy one. For over twenty years, StepTalk has been a source of support for stepparents around the world! However, over the years, the costs associated with maintaining and upgrading the site to remain secure, meet current standards and maintain availability have become unsustainable.
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Neither me nor my ex is named
Neither me nor my ex is named as residential parenting but we get along very well. Our decree says we have to agree on all decisions or go through court ordered mediation but I don't foresee that ever being an issue.
What happens if you two can
What happens if you two can not decide on a school to put the kids in?
I should have added..... We
I should have added.....
We all have a good relationship. BM and I don't like each other but we talk back and forth about important things and FDH and BM have a good relationship. They have 50/50 shared parenting a week on a week off. So far they have agreed on everything but what school to put the kids in. BM works full time as an stna and does not have a mon-fri schedule. Usually she works more hours when we have the kids and only one or two days when she has them. FDH works mon-fri every week.
Of course they both want to be the residential parent for their own benifit. BM has always wanted her kids to go to school A and FDH has always wanted them to go to school B. It makes more sense to me for FDH husband to be the residential parent because of his work and he plans on buying a house in the next year or so.
Bad move IMHO. I think when
Bad move IMHO. I think when it comes to schools the child goes to the school where the parent living in the best district or if in the same district the school were the parent living in the feed zipcode for the best school lives.
No need to agree or disagree. Purely a quality of school mandate in the CO. The kid goest to the best available school..... PERIOD!!!
If one parent wants to pay for a top quality private school for he kid then that is where the kid goes regardless of what the other parent thinks about it.
IMHO of course.