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I'm really disappointed, for the first time ever, with the responses on TFP. Some day one of you will fall in love with someone who has kids and then see how the tune changes. Single parents (be they men or women) aren't looking for someone to be another "Dad" (or "Mom"). If you fall in love with someone would you be so callous as to say "oh no, but I can't/won't love your children so it's all off"? That just seems so heartless to me.
And yes, you may have guessed....I'm a single mom. My boys love their father, see him often and know that he will never be replaced. And I would never expect anyone to try to take over that position. Perhaps someday someone will come into their lives and be a friend and mentor but they only have one father. I think perhaps a bit of youth is speaking here (no offence at all meant to anyone) and it saddens me a little to think that a single parent would become such a forbidden thing based solely on the fact that they had children but didn't stay in a relationship - regardless of how bad it was for that particular person and/or the kids themselves. I do not think that just because I have children means that I am now unloveable or unworthy of being with someone.
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