It sounds like you’re a newly single mother with lots of doubts about your future. 😕
Relax…..
Yes, yes, yes, there are tons of men who want to date, fall in love with and marry single mothers your age! The future is rosy if you’re willing to change your outlook! 😉 You’re also going to have to change the way you date now, as a single mother, compared with the way you did as a single person who wasn’t a parent. You have to be more careful.
Here are a few ground rules:
Don’t bring your dates around your kids. Only date when your children have a babysitter or are at a friend or relative’s house.
Always choose dates who would be good step-fathers. Don’t waste your time (and his) with someone who has great attributes, except that they wouldn’t — or don’t want to be — a great father.
Open your mind — you may end up with a single father who has children of his own! Consider if you’d be willing to have a blended family and be a step-mother. Be honest with yourself — and him. If the answer is no, then don’t date a single dad. If it’s yes, then be prepared for a different type of life.
Next…. decide to look fabulous even though you have less time, energy and money than you did when you were single. It’s important that you don’t lose that part of yourself that is datable. Second, reconsider other single fathers at your children’s’ schools, baseball games, art classes, etc. You have entry into a whole world of eligible men that many single women without children, don’t. Be resourceful! At the pediatrician’s office with your kids? Scope out the other dads with sick kids, who aren’t wearing wedding bands!
And most importantly, find other single mother friends to help you out with babysitting, and hashing around ideas of who, what and where to date.
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