It seems that your daughter was doing it for the right reasons. She wanted a strong man in her children’s lives.
I’m willing to bet she didn’t meet your current son-in-law at a bar or nightclub, and her “dating” was probably not the self-indulgent type of dating that leads moms to make bad decisions.
The fortunate outcome is probably not the result of your daughter’s “dating”, but rather he determination to secure what is best for her children.
I’m very happy it worked out, but I will stand by my original comment, which is that moms probably shouldn’t “date”.
Well, you did add a "probably".
My daughter's new husband is a guy she went to school with, a widower himself. Almost 2 years after her first husband's death, they renewed their friendship. Sounds like a fairy tale but I assure you its real.
Our daughter visited here over the Father's Day week end (She lives about 300 miles from me and her mother) my son-in-law couldn't come, he had to work.