Sometimes family doesn’t fit into the usual mold, and this man decided to break it with an afternoon snack.
He brought his current partner together with his ex-partner, and also invited each of their children so everyone could spend the afternoon together as if it were the most normal thing in the world. The mother of his daughter ended up holding the son he had with the other woman, while that boy’s mother sat beside the daughter who isn’t hers, accompanied by her own ex-partner. A crossing of roles that in any other family would end in soap opera drama.
But here there were no shouts or awkward glances: just coffee, bread, and a scene of coexistence that many can’t even manage with their own nuclear family. “Mine, yours, and ours”, he himself titled the scene, summing up in six words what it would take others years of therapy to understand. 🥐☕