This....
This is what I believe.
Single mom or dad... whatever. You only get one shot. And if you blow it, or even if the other party is at fault, then for the sake of the children you remain single until they are grown and out of the house.
No dating, no marrying, no way.
Well I want a woman with children. I want to find my role as a father.
My mother remarried when I was 9 and my brother 6. Neither of our bio-donors was worth a damn. Never around and in my brothers’ case his was always in prison (mom had issues when she was younger) but I digress. My step-dad was excellent. He was and remains “Dad.” He taught me what a man IS and what a man is NOT. Without him I shudder to think of the kind of father that I would have been to my kids, or the pitiful excuse for men that my brother and I would be today. I love that man. When I think of the word Dad, that is the picture in my head, not the bio-donor that I saw maybe 5 times growing up. Without Dad, I would not have the relationship with Christ that I do today....I simply would have no point of reference. Not that boys growing up in fatherless homes never become good Christian men (I know a couple that have gone on to become Pastors and I stand in awe listening to them) but I believe that the statistics are on my side on this.