I am so pleased I have kept my mouth shut on that issue, based on what you are now going through. My best friend and her new husband are lovely people but they always seem to have some drama and they are both very stressed out people and my friend is on anti-depressants now so they would probably not cope with having to look after someone else's child.
I think that family are a good choice cause they are always around. I don't even know who my God parents are so that idea didn't really work for my parents. Thank God they are still around and we never had to go to the godparents to live.

My family is split up and I wouldn't really call it a family anymore so there is no one at all on my side of the family would consider as good guardians to my little man. But we have DH cousins who have a 6 year old girl and a 1 year old boy that we would probably consider. Now we don't spend a lot of time with them as they live about 1 hour away but they are good people and love close families and they have a good home and good values. Like someone said its not a popularity contest its about the child being left to a couple who are best for the child if the worst should happen to you and your partner.

I guess we will have to cross this bridge soon enough ourselves but for now we have not put a lot of thought into it.