Meet the co-parents who go on holiday together with their kids, text all day and have an “open policy” at each other’s homes - but don't touch.<br /><br />Kodye Elyse, 35, and her former partner, Brian, 38, split in August 2018 after their marriage “turned into roommates”.<br /><br />The pair have two daughters – aged eight and 10 – and a six-year-old son and were both dedicated to giving their children an “easy transition” following their divorce.<br /><br />Kodye said it took her and Brian, a national sales director, time to gain their “respect” back for each other.<br /><br />But they are now “close” and spend Christmas, birthdays and family holidays together.<br /><br />They will take day trips as a family such as going to the ‘pumpkin patch’ and have dinner all together.<br /><br />The parents live separately but have an “open policy” at each other’s homes – but say they would always give each other a text to say they were coming over.<br /><br />Kodye and Brian still set boundaries – such as not sleeping over at each other’s house unless in an emergency – and are both not currently dating.<br /><br />The mum-of-three still wants her ex to find someone knew and says the “right person will fit into our family”.<br /><br />Kodye, a content creator, from Los Angeles, California, US, said: “We’re both focused on raising our kids.<br /><br />“Our friendship is the number one thing in their lives – it comes before dating.<br /><br />“Vacations are core memories for our kids, so we want to be there together with them.<br /><br />“We get an Airbnb so we can have separate rooms.<br /><br />“We have an open-door policy – he’s always welcome here.<br /><br />“But I don’t just hang out with him – I hang out with him and the kids.<br /><br />“People online think we must still be hooking up.<br /><br />“People don’t believe men and women can just be friends.<br /><br />“None of that is true – we’re just good friends.”<br /><br />Kodye and Brian hit it off when they met in 2006 and tied the knot in June 2011 before starting a family.<br /><br />But the couple grew apart and decided to split in August 2018.<br /><br />Kodye said: “We had a lot of common young couple issues.<br /><br />“You turn into a different person.<br /><br />“We turned into roommates.”<br /><br />The couple made ground rules straight away after separating.<br /><br />Kodye said: “We said no introducing other partners to kids before partner – and not until you’ve been seeing a long time.<br /><br />“No talking badly about the other in front of the kids and no fighting in front of them.<br /><br />“We wanted the kids to have an easy transition.”<br /><br />Kodye said her and Brian have been “slowly progressing” their co-parenting but both felt it was important the kids got to still go on their annual holiday.<br /><br />She said: “We never saw why the kids should miss out on that just because we are not married.<br /><br />“We go to the mountains and to the beach in the summer.”<br /><br />They have an “open policy” at each other’s houses but say they don’t just “hang out” without the kids.<br /><br />Kodye said: “We have our individual lives."<br /><br />“We’re still divorced.
