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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You've already identified the child as a "problem" so you need to leave and let him find someone better. I can't imagine a normal person calling a 3 year old child's very existence a problem--you are gross. [/quote]

This is unfair.

Being a step parent is a HUGE deal and very challenging. Many relationships with step parents fail. She is right to question whether she want this.

And at 32, I think she should listen to her gut and keep dating single or divorced guys with no kids.

OP, once I turned 41, I started dating divorced dads. It's hard. I am in a relationship with one now. You just don't get prioirtized the way you would if there were no stepkids involved. You also wind up giving up control and decisionmaking on a LOT of things that women who DONT have stepkids DO get to control.

Like where you live (my boyfriend lives in a house i hate and he refuses to entertain the idea of moving to a new house, even in the same school district, if we get married). Like how you spend the holidays. Whether the kids living in your house put their dishes in the dish washer or not - if dad doesn't tell them to, it wont happen.

Not worth it at 32.

If you are still single at forty plus, there will be a TON of divorced dads you can date. A TON. You can always date divorced dads later if you dont find a guy with no kids now.[/quote]

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