I have the opposite experience, whereby everytime I meet a single mum and try to get to know them, they become very closed and difficult to know. Understandable if they've been hurt before. However, it doesn't enable me to try and get close to them which is frustrating. As a result we end up being nothing mroe than friends.
A friend of mine is a single dad with 2 kids and he has the same problem. Even single mum's avoid him!
iv become that way too! well from my own experience iv been rejected so much that at this stage i find it hard to get close to guys!if al guys were like u then u wuldnt be gettin shut out nd i wuldnt be complainin now :)
I'm a single mum, I have dated a few guys since taking that status. One thought it was a problem, although he never said that and dated me a while before we went our separate ways.
Im a little wary of the blokes looking for a ready made family.
I really understand it when single mums are scared of being hurt, after all they have their children to think of as well. It's just frustrating when you meet someone and they are like that. Sometime I just accept that being friends is all that will happen.
It doesn't bother me if they are a single mum or not.
bot on the other side dont you worry that you might become part of more than one persons life and then it all messes up and everyone gets hurt? How soon do these women introduce a man to their kids? I havent gotten that far yet!
I am a single parent too. I don't have a social life to meet any nice men, as all my girlfriends are married with their own families. So have no one to go out with (sob sob) I don't think I will ever meet anyone : - (
Good point there, but I suppose it's a risk you take. You see it from that point of view, I just see it from mine. I accept that one reason why single mum's may be harder to get close to is the possibility of the kids getting hurt as well as themselves.
I never said I was looking for a single mum, or a ready made family. I just think that it is irrelevant if the other person has a kid(s). I'd still make an effort with the kid, as much as I could, without marginalising either the lady or the child(ren).