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Dating with Children

Okay, a lot of you have been a single parents or have married a single parent. How long were you and H together before you really had him around your kids, or were around his kids?

 

I ask because of my surprise visitor last weekend. She let N's cousin MOVE IN right away and it bothers me.

Re: Dating with Children

  • Well we are 500 miles away, but I met the kids around 9 months into the relationship.  Lilly had just turned 4 and Ryan was 5.
    Eliza Mae - September 16th, 2014

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  • Started dating Greg in December 2008. I didn't introduce him to A until April of that 2009, after we had a serious sit down talk of our future. It was made clear that I wasn't doing this all willy nilly (A had never met any other person that I had dated prior, I kept the two seperate). We moved in August 2009 only because A was starting kindergarten and it was either move then, or wait until the school year was over. I didn't want to interrupt his day to day life in the middle of the year.

    I had dated a lot prior to Greg, but I knew that those relationships would never be marriage material. I even had a boyfriend ask to meet A, and when I said no, he got the hint that he wasn't going to be anything long term.

    I think it is beyond irresponsible when people move in right away. Moving in with G was a huge adjustment for A at first. I can't see doing that to a child and then it not working out and them having to go through that.
    A: 10.02.03    M: 01.28.11
  • I met Grant when he 18 months old...6 months into our relationship...but it would have been sooner if be didn't live in TX. That was his first visit here during our relationship.
    Met 6.12.09 Engaged 09.29.10 I Do 10.22.11 
    BFP #1 8.19.12 Ectopic 8.29.12
    BFP #2 1.14.13 DS 10.6.13 

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