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Old 02-20-2013, 08:05 PM
 
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I've turned down women for many dumb reasons. I have a lot of fears, even more about relationships.

One that I'll mention; a person won't accept me for having a kid.

I've seen it here many a time by a few regulars. It really scares me to know that a kid can prevent something good from happening.
It wouldn't be the kid doing the preventing. In fact, it wouldn't be anything good.
Stop looking at your child as a handicap. He isn't.
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Old 02-20-2013, 08:11 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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Your greatest relationship fear
That she's waiting for someone better to come along and I'm just filling in as a temp.

[i want to be fulltime with benefits!]
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Old 02-20-2013, 08:20 PM
 
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That I will never have one.
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Old 02-20-2013, 08:48 PM
 
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I don't have any relationship fears. What will be, will be.
Yup...I agree with you.

I don't really have any fears with regard to my relationship.

However I'm one of those "expect the worst" type people.
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Old 02-21-2013, 06:05 AM
 
Location: Where the heart is...
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I've turned down women for many dumb reasons. I have a lot of fears, even more about relationships.

One that I'll mention; a person won't accept me for having a kid.

I've seen it here many a time by a few regulars. It really scares me to know that a kid can prevent something good from happening.
If you think having a child will be the roadblock to your finding a great and lasting relationship you might want to reconsider the pool from which you are seeking (appropriate) candidates.

Seriously, if someone cannot love you and commit to you because you have a child then there may be more to it than meets the eye. If not, considere you and your child extremely blessed that your little family (of two?) has been overlooked or passed by...until the woman with character and love comes calling.

Best regards, sincerely

HomeIsWhere...
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:39 AM
 
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feeling sexually(partner having more experience) and financially inadequate(partner makes more) in a relationship, in laws not respecting me, feeling inferior to the other husbands who provide more for their wives, etc
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Old 02-21-2013, 07:39 PM
 
Location: PA/NJ
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That it might indeed last forever
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:05 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis (St. Louis Park)
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(1) That she will stop loving me...

(2) The possibility for me that being in a loving marriage is something that will never happen.

Those are really the big 2, in my case...
I hope that is not the case with my SO, whom I fell out of love with. She claims she still loves me, which really hurts because the last thing I want to do is hurt her (honestly), but she has not shown love or affection towards me whatsoever in at least 2 years, maybe 3. It's the feeling of abandonment, or lack of love/affection, from my SO that is making me want to separate. The most confusing part about it is that she doesn't want to, and she just thinks we need to work on some more things. 9 times out of 10 I'd be right there with her, willing to try anything to make it work, but I just don't "feel it" anymore......it's really been hard, too (for everyone involved)!
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:12 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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That something will happen and she'll one day walk out on me........That I won't see it coming and then it's too late........
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:15 PM
 
Location: Homeless
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Abandonment.

Yeah, I can see that or maybe that said person feels at some point that they never loved you. I think that scares me the most. People seemed fickled & tend to fall in or out of love at the drop of a hat. I don't want to be one of those people who I fall for & two years down the road they feel like they can do better or figure that they never did feel love for me.
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