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Here's the problem with you eliminating single parents (I assume women). The older you get the more difficult it will be to find one.
This reminds me of a guy I used to work with, we're the same age. He spent part of his early adulthood in seminary. He left that and went on a multi decade search for the perfect virginal woman to marry. Since he was nearly 30 when he started the search the pool was pretty small to begin with and got smaller as the years went on.
He's still looking.
Like I stated earlier if the kids are grown and out of the house I would not be against dating a single mother since the kids are out of the picture and we don't have to do the awkward pretend we are big happy family thing.
Like I stated earlier if the kids are grown and out of the house I would not be against dating a single mother since the kids are out of the picture and we don't have to do the awkward pretend we are big happy family thing.
Unless I missed it, your family really didn't have an issue when you were growing up, or none that you mentioned. You criticized your mother for getting pregnant and married while young and something similar for your dad. That's called life.
I have no dog in the fight so don't care (I have seen many more happy blended families than unhappy ones, though) and I'll tell you to do as you wish. Why are you here seeking validation anyway?
Unless I missed it, your family really didn't have an issue when you were growing up, or none that you mentioned. You criticized your mother for getting pregnant and married while young and something similar for your dad. That's called life.
I have no dog in the fight so don't care (I have seen many more happy blended families than unhappy ones, though) and I'll tell you to do as you wish. Why are you here seeking validation anyway?
Honestly I post this topic on City Data to see if there are others on here that have been through similar experiences and there views on dating single parents whether they would or not. You don't hear much about those of us that are the product of a blended family so to be honest it's nice to talk to others that have been in a similar situation because it's not something you regularly run across.
As far as my parents go I do love them but I have no patience to deal with others that have made the same mistakes they did when they were young. I grew up having to deal with a bipolar schizophrenic addict brother that caused nothing but problems and did so deliberately because he hated my father and wanted to ruin there marriage...and ironically viewed me as the bastard in the family. I honestly could never deal with a scenario like that in a relationship. Since children of single parents tend to literally despise there stepparents it's not something I'm interested in ever becoming. So to put it bluntly my problem isn't with my parents as far as why I won't date single parents. It has to deal with my brother and the completely screwed up relationship that caused within the family.
I don't think your parents chose for your brother (1/2 brother?) to be mentally ill. That can happen no matter the family make up.
It does happen however when you marry impulsively without getting to know someone well like my mother did. Again it comes down to choices and consequences with most single parents having made really bad choices and me not having the patience to deal with the ongoing consequences of those choices.
If you don't care why are you commenting? A lot of people on here are being really defensive.
Well, it -is- an open thread that begs for comments.
Why are you seeking validation for why you don't want to date single-parents?
or redheads?
or short people?
or dumb people?
or Republicans?
It does happen however when you marry impulsively without getting to know someone well like my mother did. Again it comes down to choices and consequences with most single parents having made really bad choices and me not having the patience to deal with the ongoing consequences of those choices.
You need some therapy.
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