By this point, we’ve all accepted the reality that “it takes a village” when it comes to raising children, and for single parents, that village is even more important. One single mom on TikTok — Kelsey Will, who posts as @kelseywont (smart) — shared her “greatest life hack ever” as a single mom: living with a single dad.
Will explains that she lives with a single dad in a duplex: there’s no shared living space, but their houses are connected, which allows “all the benefits of being roommates without actually being roommates.”
“We’re like neighbors and good friends who were born to be friends,” she said. “If one of us needs anything, the other one is there.”
From borrowing things from each other to doing chores for each other (“He likes to take the trash can out to the street and dump it in the driveway because he likes to do ‘the man in the family’ thing”) to just thinking about each other and going for a quick meal They always support each other.
Of course, this also extends to parenting issues.
“One morning he had his daughter and it was picture day at school and he didn’t know how to do her hair,” she recalled. “So she came to my house at 7 a.m. and I did her hair.”
Their relationship is obviously very loving, but it can still be considered TMI’s “old married couple” level. “Yesterday he came in for two seconds and asked me to pop a pimple on his neck with a safety pin,” she said with a laugh. “Our friendship truly has no boundaries.”
Of course, at this point we know what you’re thinking, and so does Will.
“It’s completely platonic,” she clarified. “There are no romantic feelings involved…although if so, this would certainly be a storyline truly worthy of BookTok.”
We work very hard for this. (Are we secretly expecting a shift in BooktTok? Of course.) So did the people in Will’s comments.
“Waiting for HALLMARK to pick this up!” gushed.
“Wait for an update in 10 years,” agreed another. “‘The kids are out of the house and now we’re in love…'”
Some not-so-single moms also think it sounds like a good idea.
“My husband and I need a duplex,” one joked.
But overall, people really enjoy the wholesome content.
“I love seeing humans caring about each other,” one commenter wrote. “I swear, this is the craziest part of life.”
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
