I can agree with that. I will not move a man into my home unless and until he has made a committment to me and my children.
My intent is to stay single until my children are grown, but I don't think it is right for others to expect the single parents to stay that way.
Agreed on all counts. G'night Truss.
I think it is lovely when a divorced person can find a good, strong relationship and bring another parent into the home. Unfortunately, there are a lot of occasions when single people, generally mothers, will move a loser boyfriend into the house. It does seem that live-in boyfriends are particularly dangerous to children.
You say that you intend to stay single and that is very admirable. I agree that it is likely a difficult and lonely thing to contemplate. But I assume that you are doing it because it is best for your children. Many people will not place their children ahead of themselves and will enter into just any kind of relationship to avoid being alone.
My hope is that you meet one of those really good guys...like my Dad. My Mom was a young widow with 4 kids,(ages 6, 8, 10, and 12) during the depression. A neighbor invited her out for an evening of bowling with the neighbor, her bf, and the bf's buddy.
My Mom agonized about starting to date again. (Her husband had been dead for 5 years). She decided to go. Long story short, the man she went out with that night married her, adopted her four children, then they proceeded to have 4 more, of which I was the oldest.
A better husband, father, and friend no one could have than the man my mother met on a blind date.