Six months ago, ayesharascoe, host of NPR’s ‘Weekend Edition Sunday’ and ‘The Sunday Story,’ bought a house with her best friend, Jasmin Melvin, also a journalist. Both women had recently gotten divorced and had been struggling with the financial and logistical strains of single motherhood; Rascoe has three kids, aged 12, 9, and 8, and Melvin’s kids are 10 and 7. “Both me and Jasmin were trying to figure it out by ourselves,” Rascoe says. “I was paying thousands of dollars for a nanny — more than my mortgage. Jasmin was not leaving the house, working at home and never going out. And it was like, ‘Well, why don't we try to do this together so we can help each other?’” So they embarked upon a new chapter as co-owners and co-parents, entering into a domestic partnership between friends the likes of which remains vanishingly rare. In the #Brooding newsletter this week, Rascoe speaks with kjezermo about her blended household — and what it feels like to live with someone who wants the bes...