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[quote=Anonymous][quote=taketothebank]For the single moms - what is preventing your exDH (or child's father) from spending time with his kid and giving you some free time?

My daughter lived with me when we got divorced (she was a senior in high school.)  I found time to date even with going to every sporting event, helping out with fundrasing and school stuff, etc.  Now, she could drive and that made a HUGE impact.

I have dated single moms who were still tied to driving kids and the driving seemed to be the hardest part (i.e., they had trouble making plans for an evening since they would need to drive their DS/DD someplace during the evening.)  But you could have fun waiting for that time and fun afterward.[/quote]

21:35. I agree that we make time if it matters to us. While most of my friends are married, I have a cohort of single mom friends as well. I swear that some of them hide behind the mom thing to avoid dating and vulnerability. A couple of them genuinely don’t trust their exes alone with the kids. My personal opinion is that we’re all learning on the job. Others have exes who are simply uninterested in parenting.

It’s definitely easier as they get older. DD is 9 and sometimes remains home while I grocery shop or work out. That was a huge step for her this summer. By the time she’s a teen, I wouldn’t have any issues leaving her home to grab an early dinner here and there. We live in the city and know our neighbors and she knows not to answer the door when I’m not around. There’s another single mom at our school who has early dinner dates (ending around 630p) in order to pick her kids up in time. And she’s a partner at a law firm. Again, we make time for what we value.[/quote]

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