[April Masini, your AskApril]

I tried to help you, but you don’t seem to want my advice. 🙁 So, let me try again — but buckle up, because I’m going to be a little more specific and use some extra capital letters in an effort to get across to you.

SHE’S MARRIED! Stop wasting your time with someone who you met online [i]seven months ago[/i] in October WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED and now in April,[i] seven months later[/i], [b]SHE’S STILL MARRIED! [/b]

If you’d taken my advice and read the book I suggested (it would take a week and save you the months you’ve wasted since you last wrote me), you’d understand that “going through the divorce process” means she’s STILL MARRIED! (Date Out of Your League can be purchased for $8.99 and automatically downloaded here: [url]https://www.askapril.com/relationship-dating-advice/date-out-of-your-league.html[/url]) Stop fooling yourself and get objective! Her husband isn’t trying to “take her children away from her”. He wants custody of those kids who are his, too. Maybe he’s actually a good dad! (He didn’t cheat on the kids — he cheated on her.)

Which is why [b]you [/b]SHOULD NOT be chatting with her young children online. It’s entirely inappropriate for you to put them in this position, and it’s confusing for them (along with a neurotic mother who sleeps with them because she’s afraid that if she doesn’t something will happen to them. 😯 ).

There are lots of women who are single (now there’s a novel idea!) and available and who live within an hour’s drive time of your home so you don’t have to meet in Vegas for a date while her husband babysits her children. 😮

Your friends are right. This won’t work, and you’re going to hurt people along the way. Choose someone who’s actually available to date. 🙂

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