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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the responses on this thread are disturbing. [b]Do people really believe that once you are divorced/widowed and have children that you are no longer "allowed" or should want to find love again?[/b] I can't even wrap my mind around this idea. Humans are social creatures and we are all deserving of love. Sometimes marriages don't work out for a variety of reasons, again because we are HUMANS and not robots. I completely agree that one should not bring in another step parent unless it is a right fit for the family and that person gets along with your children. I believe that you can still have your children's best interest in mind and still have a new relationship. I am also saying this as a parent myself who is married, but I know that if my DH and I did not work out or he died, I certainly would hope I would not be considered a monster if I found an amazing and loving man that I wanted to share my life with, along w/ my children. I would also hope that my husband would do the same. I would want him to find love again. I would trust that the both of us would not bring someone into our children's life that was "bad". Also, your children eventually grow up and leave the nest and start their own famlies, and I would hope that your own children would want their parent to be happy and not alone. I think the other part of this thread that is strange is that we live in 2016, where many famlies are blended and come in different shapes and sizes, mainly because the divorce rate is high and shit happens! The people responding about being repulsed by this idea seem to be of an older generation maybe? I am in my mid 30's and have friends in the same age range and in their 40's who are divorced and remarried and they have blended famlies and things are going very well for all involved.   [/quote]

Yes.

Blended families rarely work well.  I hope my kids don't have to live through divorce or the death of a parent, but should that happen, it would be very selfish of me to impose another traumatic change on them.[/quote]

I think you need to "step" out of your bubble and read this....http://www.stepfamily.org/stepfamily-statistics.html[/quote]

That supports my view.[/quote]

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