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When I met my future wife, she had a five year old beloved daughter. As time went by I fell in love with mom & daughter. About a year after we married, I adopted my daughter. Then as the years went by we had three more beloved children...
When I met my future wife, she had a five year old beloved daughter. As time went by I fell in love with mom & daughter. About a year after we married, I adopted my daughter. Then as the years went by we had three more beloved children...
That's how I want things.Glad you had a happy ending.
Not only did I do it before I was married, but one of my most pleasant pre-marriage relationships I had was with a woman who had kids. She and I literally became a family. I was allowed to pick up her kids from school. We ate meals at the table. Stuff families do. I was 24 at the time, she was 31. It was an amazing experience for me and a glimpse of the family life I knew I would eventually want.
I can definitely understand why others would not want to date a person with kids. It worked out for me, though. And if I were to ever find myself without a wife, I'd certainly hope there would be an eligible woman out there willing to date this guy who has kids.
It may have been nice for you, but it wasn't a healthy experience for the kids. The relationship ended and you moved on. The kids in this situation often grow up feeling that men coming and going and moving on is normal and their future relationships often fit that pattern. Not good.
With my child, I take the philosophy of, "it depends on wants vs needs." I always place my child's needs above my own... but wants, I usually place mine first (although this doesn't mean I "never" give her, her wants).
Agree 100%
My kids don't always come first. I'm not single but it's more of a wants vs. needs at our house as well.
Yes. I know. I used to be before I got this thorn in my side. Obviously that is just the gist of it. I don't feel like writing an essay justifying the situation. Your sarcasm is noted.
Just end the relationship if you feel this way (because it's either going to end anyway or be an unhappy relationship down the line). It's not the kid's fault for being a brat. It's the parents' fault...and that means BOTH the mom AND the dad.
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Sorry I skipped to the last sentence of your post when you started measuring her worth on her looks based on a scale of 1-10.
It is normal to compare the degree of attraction one feels from one person to another. Everybody does it, male and female. You can say 0-10 or you can say "completely unattractive in every way" versus "extremely attractive", it is the same thing.
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Most of the info. about overpopulation is 20-30 years out of date. Birth rates are dropping almost everywhere.
Yep, +1.
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Then as the years went by we had three more beloved children...
