What is co-parenting? How to create a co-parenting plan A child’s basic physical and emotional needs Crafting your plan Resources for successful co-parenting Raising a child is a huge, decades-long project. It’s intense, time-consuming, and expensive. Two people co-parenting separately requires a great deal of collaboration. But how do you collaborate with someone with whom you have a history—a not-so-happy history, in some cases? In this article, we explore what co-parenting is, how to create a co-parenting plan, and resources you can use to succeed at co-parenting even if you don’t love (or, sometimes, like) your parenting partner. What is co-parenting? In a co-parenting situation, two parties who are not romantically involved share in the upbringing of a child. The