Who wants a hubby when you are able to do life with a bosom buddy.
Elevating youngsters as a singleton is usually a actual battle. However finest buddies Shannon and Cheyanne are tackling the problem in tandem.
“Two mothers who determined it was simpler to co-parent with one another than their ex-husbands,” Shannon, a divorced mom of 4, from Nevada, wrote within the closed-captions of a clip, detailing their outré dwelling preparations.
“Life is less complicated with a village,” she captioned the vid, which has amassed over 7.6 million TikTok views — and, in fact, raised a number of curious eyebrows about her relationship with Cheyanne, a divorced mother of two.
“We each very very similar to males,” insisted Shannon, “however two girls splitting [the] home and children [and] chores has confirmed simpler than with males.”
Sorry guys. The women are going it alone — collectively.
It’s a seemingly candy setup between gal friends that provides every social gathering the assist, companionship and platonic love of one other guardian with related wants.
Besties Lauren Robinson and Samantha Finest, single mothers from Auckland, New Zealand, determined to rear their broods below the identical roof after Finest spilt along with her ex in April 2021.
“It’s a lot simpler dwelling with Lauren,” Finest beforehand gushed. “We’ve been in a position to cut up our funds and we’re in a position to assist one another with childcare if one in every of us is busy, the opposite can choose them each up from faculty, or if both of us must exit the opposite can watch the 2 kids.”
“It’s nice.”
Kristin Batykefer and Tessa Gilder agree.
The twosome, divorcees of Jacksonville, Florida, shaped a “mommune” — a portmanteau of “mother” and “commune” — in 2023 after splitting from the respective companions.
“After I needed to go away my husband, all I may take into consideration was how I now had to determine how you can do all the pieces by myself,” Batykefer lately instructed the New York Occasions. “Purchase a home by myself, pay my payments by myself, and lift my baby by myself.”
“I by no means ever thought of discovering one other single mom to dwell with and do it collectively,” she continued. “We simply fell into it. However now, it’s like, why isn’t it extra widespread for us to hitch forces?.”
Shannon and Cheyanne, who continuously share scenes from their lives collectively on-line, appear to have additionally joined forces with seamless ease.
The pair divides the housekeeping, kiddie corralling and payments. However they’re not stay-at-home-moms dwelling off of month-to-month verify from their exes.
Shannon, {an electrical} contractor, and Cheyanne, a portray contractor, have each been ordered to pay their former husbands 1000’s every month, per the phrases of their divorce decrees.
“Neither one in every of us will get baby assist or alimony,” Shannon groaned.
“And my $200,000 [owed] is along with one other $40,000 in property that my ex saved,” added Cheyanne.
“It’s arduous being single mothers that work so arduous and a lot,” mentioned Shannon, “[just] to offer all of it away.”
