Dating

When would you start dating again? I've never actually been in a proper relationship with the father of my 8 month old, we were just a situationship for the last 6 years. I feel like it's kinda disrespectful to him if I was to start dating. I'm pretty sure he is but he doesn't have the baby live with him so I guess he kinda just gets to do whatever as it doesn't really have any effect on the baby. I don't know 🤷‍♀️ what did you guys do?
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What makes you say starting dating would be disrespectful to you ex-situationship??

@Amanda she thinks that it would be disrespectful to him as the father of her kid to have people around in the house. thats how i read it anyways.

@Mara yes exactly that

@Mara well people usually don’t have the babies on the dates with them, much less bring them back to the house if the kid is there. As someone who dated with a 5mo old (after being divorced for 1 year) and didn’t introduce the man into his life until he was 1yo, I can’t understand what the issue is? As long as baby isn’t exposed to anyone too early and you’re not going around telling the baby that someone else is their dad or whatnot….no disrespect is happening! You should be free to date even as the primary parent 💜

@Amanda could you imagine turning up on a date with your baby 🙈🤣 yeah I wouldn't be introducing anyone to my baby any time soon but it's very difficult when you get very little time to go out and do those things. As the father doesn't have baby often and when he does its literally an hour or two at a time.

Right? Hahaha that would be an interesting date 😂 Yeah I completely get that, my ex had every other weekend custody (with my oldest child only) and none with the baby so I had him 24/7. I had to find a day when my ex had my 5yo and my sister had a free afternoon to watch the baby. It was difficult to schedule but a man that’s interested will make the time. It also helps weed out the guys you don’t want to date as they show their colors fairly early when it’s hard to hang out! I got pretty lucky and found an amazing man willing to make the time and effort (it was a lot of phone calls/facetimes in the beginning) but now we’re happily married and planning a 3rd come next year! It’s totally do-able and I can tell you are putting your kids first so don’t worry about being disrespectful! You are doing right by you and yours 💜

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