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The co-parenting app I rolled my eyes at actually kept the peace
My ex and I split last March and everyone pushed this parenting app on us, I figured we could just text like adults. Three months in, the passive aggressive messages about pickup times were getting ugly, so we caved and tried it. Has anyone else found that having every schedule change and expense logged in one place cuts down the arguments, or is it just us?
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abby_cooper3d ago
The receipts made everything less about feelings, way more about facts.
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jason_stone592d agoMost Upvoted
Last month my cousin sent me screenshots of texts she'd saved from her ex, and it was like a switch flipped. She went from crying every night to making a pro and con list on his own words. Suddenly the gaslighting didn't work anymore because she could read back exactly what he said two weeks ago. It didn't make the breakup hurt less, but it made her stop blaming herself. Facts are just harder to argue with than feelings, plain and simple.
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