NuevaVida -> RE: Doms with kids (8/14/2013 7:27:05 PM)
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It's hard for me to understand what you're wanting, but I'll give some input anyway. I have no kids and my Mister has a daughter. He told me outright, and it was fine with me, at the time. Because he was careful in parenting his child, I did not meet her for a few months, until he knew he and I were serious about a future together. I respected that. He was totally up front with all of it. Now I am very, very close with his daughter. I am not a parent to her, nor am I her "aunt." I don't live in lies. In her eyes, I am her Dad's girlfriend, and her friend and mentor. As a woman without kids, being with a man who IS a parent, it has, at times, been very hard. Sure he has time for me but many times my own wants and needs came after what his daughter wanted or needed. And that is how it SHOULD be (mostly - sometimes I came after her whims, whines, teenaged antics, etc., which we've had some issues over), but it took a lot of love and patience on my part to hang in there during those times. Many times it felt as though my life revolved around someone else's child, and I struggled with that. But we always talked openly about it, and we were always very honest with each other about what we thought and felt. I'm getting from your posts that you are not comfortable just being up front and honest about things, and that's going to be a problem for you going forward. It is BECAUSE we could be so honest about things, that they worked out as well as they did. I will say, though, if I somehow found myself single again, I doubt very much I'd go out with a man with kids again, unless they were grown, responsible adults.
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