Personally, I feel like this is how parents need to be with their children. She's only 2, but we're very civil for her sake. One might say we're friends, but we're just being civil. He turns 22 tomorrow and wanted to see her for a bit. He said that's all he wants for his birthday and that it'd be pointless to have a birthday party if she wasn't part of it. I told him it's definitely fine, but only if his mom wont be present for his and Samira's get together time. Parents need to be like this for their child's sake. I know it's not like this for everyone. I know. I used to be in that situation. It sucked. But we worked past our hatred and dislike of each other and made it work and we're still making it work.

I'm going to let Samira pick out a gift for him. Might not be anything a 22 year old male would typically like, but it'd be from his daughter. She's also got a few pictures colored up for him :) I love this kind of civil friendship where we coparent as mother and father instead of baby momma and baby daddy. Samira deserves to know her parents in this manner