TAMPA, Fla. — Megan and Mike Paskas have been married in 2009. They had a son, however the marriage didn’t final. After 4 years, they divorced they usually every remarried somebody new, however they nonetheless had issues.

“After our divorce, we found it very hard to co-parent because we had a lot of issues we hadn’t worked through,” organic mom Megan Stortz mentioned. “We weren’t communicating in a healthy manner and when I started to see it take a toll on our son, I wasn’t like, I need to find something else to do that works.”

So, Megan reached out to her personal step-mom for recommendation. She instructed that Megan ship Tiffany, the step-mother of her son, a present.

“I was scared because we both grew up in divorced families and you don’t do that, my mom and my step-mom didn’t get along at all,” she mentioned. “But, I sent her a Mother’s Day card and a bottle of champagne, and in the card, I wrote something like, ‘thank you for being such a positive influence on my son’s life.'”

It was a present that Tiffany Paskas mentioned she was shocked to get.

“With the gift that she sent me, I actually remember going to work and telling my co-workers that she had given me a bottle of champagne and they were like, don’t drink it, but I already did,” step mom Tiffany Paskas mentioned.

What neither of them knew was how that gesture would open a door of communication to not solely higher care for his or her kids, however that it might blossom right into a friendship.

“She’s the best friend I’ve always wanted,” Stortz mentioned.

The two do not solely love and wish the most effective for a similar kids, however they realized that they had quite a bit in widespread.

“It also doesn’t help that we match and do our make-up so alike so people are like holy cow you guys are a lot similar than we thought,” Paskas mentioned.

Now, Megan and Tiffany, their husbands, the kid they share, plus Megan’s youngest son, began doing issues collectively as a household of six.

They have gained plenty of curiosity after documenting their co-parenting journey on social media, known as ‘Moms of Tampa.’ Their hope is to interrupt down the stigma round step-parents and co-parenting.

Moms of Tampa

“We try very hard to put the kids first, and then we are the adults who have to make the adjustments and go through the awkward phases because as children of divorce, we know what that’s like and we don’t want them to go through that either,” Paskas mentioned.