The underlying expectation growing up for a girl is that she will meet a boy who will sweep her off her feet, fall madly in love, then follow the conventional cycle of getting married, having kids, and living happily ever after. The hope of attaining a relationship of such a scenario quickly comes to an end after having kids. In the essay, “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How it was Supposed to Be. How it Was.,” by Hope Edelman, she conveys her rationale on why co-parenting doesn’t occur, as well as the struggle to overcome the pre-determined ‘gender roles’ within a marriage through an anecdote of her personal experiences with her husband, John. Edelman asserts the downfall of her marriage took place when they unintentionally conformed to the stereotypical
