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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know if it's because we were together/married so long before we had kids so we had time to work a lot of things out, but... there's almost nothing about which we are not on the same page (and we were raised very differently-- different races/ethnicities, too). Now, that is to say... we do end up having different challenges when it comes to "implementation," but we at least agree on the theory and aim towards the same goals 99.9% of the time. It's definitely partly because my husband is so amiable. Like he definitely does care and have his own ideas, and he does push back some in the planning stage (I'm research-driven, a planner), but I find he's generally open to my ideas, too, because we share the same basic values at this point.

The only stark exception I can think of is such a silly little thing-- I would let my early ES kid drink coffee once in a while (I'm talking a shot glass size that's half milk, morning only) and he just has this hangup about it, saying she shouldn't have it until she's 12. I think it's totally arbitrary but it's just about the one thing I go along with even though I disagree-- because it's not like she NEEDS coffee. Of course our kid picks up on this because it's the one thing she knows we disagree on and she pushes, but ultimately accepts it. It's kind of a running joke.

There's very little else, honestly. Some things where he *would* do something differently if he were a single parent, or I would, but we've reached an agreement and don't intentionally divide our "united front" almost ever.  [/quote]

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