My husband and I basically met because my tagline on my online ad was “Female: Mostly Harmless.”
Agreed, and agreed. It sounds terribly complicated to date someone who has kids, but I’m pretty sure that the way to settle such an issue isn’t the parent bailing on the kids.
Your twenties are for learning who you are as an adult, and experimenting and trying stuff; it’s good to be single and date various people and try different careers and such.
Ahh Melon…you’ve got to take this shit to the next level.
Don’t stop flipping cards once you get to her card. Go ahead and flip it up and a few more. She now thinks that you’ve muffed up the trick. Then say, “I’ll bet you ______________ (whatever flirty bet you want to insert here), that the next card I turn over is yours.”
She’ll think she’s got you beat since her card is laying face up on the table. Then reach down and take her card and turn it over face down.
Get back out in circulation. It just was not meant to be. There is a saying about this, “Don’t look back at the closed door so long that you don’t notice the door that is open in front of you”. Or something like that. Good Luck!
If you don’t want to be a part of that, then just tell her so. I know relationship advice is all easier said than done, because once emotions are involved logic flies out the window.
Sit her down and say “I’ve noticed this, this, and this. I’m not comfortable with those things. If you want that to be part of your life, I can’t be. Please take some time to decide what you want out of your life…” You get the picture. Just express your feelings on the subject, and take it from there. The last thing you want to do is just ignore red flags.
Not women, relationships. I was making an analogy about how even mediocre relationships can have some basic utility and comfort that you miss when they’re gone, but not to mistake the specific car for the utility and comfort.
That doesn’t sound very romantic either, I guess, but I’m just trying to say a lot of people will miss having a boyfriend/girlfriend even if the last one they had was a POS.