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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2 years. The sooner the better if he marries someone who will function like a good mother to my children. They need a mom.[/quote]

A step mom is not a mom.[/quote]

You know what I mean. Don't be so difficult.

And don't marry my widowed husband. The kids need more joy in their lives. :)[/quote]

I would [b]never have respect [/b]for a guy who didn't give a crap about the wife that gave him children. Someone who would so callously move on.
My MIL is 68. She as widowed at 52 and she has never looked at a man since. She focused on the grand kids and has many hobbies.[/quote]

+1. I think all this talk about finding new love (right away) and a brand spanking new parent (right away) is disgusting. My father NEVER found his step mother to be a replacement of his mother. All studies have shown that loss of a parent to be THE MOST TRAUMATIC event in a child's life. If you love them, there is no replacement. If you don't love them then there is no family in the first place. [/quote]

He picked well the first time right? So he'd likely pick well the second time, too. Marriage is about adult companionship, someone to rely on. I watch too many divorced friends struggle with child care and balancing work and kid stuff. Having another adult in the family can be a tremendous help. Marriage also is the easiest to create and maintain wealth, which is certainly in the children's interest. And it's in the children's interest to continue to see a healthy adult relationship modeled for them. None of this speaks ill of a man's first wife and mother of his children. [b]Joe Biden tears up today, decades later, when talking about his first wife who was killed. I think he very much still loves and honors the memory of his first wife[/b]. And can still live his current wife and the blended family they've now had for years.

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I respect him for this.  Another example is Theodore Roosevelt.  His mother and first wife died on the same day.  He remarried and had additional children and by all accounts loved them deeply.  Yet, none of them mentioned his first wife to him ever again.[/quote]

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