Ahhhhh I get you! Well in that case I would have split the bill five ways and made everyone pay their own bill! Which means mum would have had to foot the bill for her son and g/f and you and your mate the rest. I bet she would never have done that again after that!
What were you thinking taking one of your buddies along for a date with a lady? There was only one more of "them" than of you (and your buddy). The question is did your buddy help you pay the bill?
It depends what you are looking for. If you are looking for short term, going out, "having a bit of fun" may be there is no need to say anything. If you are looking for a long term relationship, then in my opinion being up front with it would mean not wasting your time getting to know someone who might run the second you mention your children.
My daughter has 2 children and although she wasn't looking there was a guy who really liked her at work. She turned him down again and again because she was worried about getting involved with someone who might not like her children. Nothing she said would make him give up (in a nice way). She eventually accepted to go out with him for a drink and they have never looked back They have now been living together for months and the kids and him get on really well.
Basically for long term a good man for you would need to also be a good man for your children
I guess some of us with several relationships past must have a few broken elastic bands in our pockets and a really strong clay pot we carry around with us...
May be it's a bit like an elastic band joining the 2 people together and either their are loads of little tugs, or one major one and once it has snapped when you tie a knot to fix it, well it just never feels the same again, the fragility of it remains apparent...
May be I don't quite understand all the subtleties of the situation Anctus but any bloke who is after a "trophy" wife (They don't have to do much, just be pretty) gets no sympathy from me.... And any woman who is happy with "just being a trophy wife" gets no sympathy from me either (she's gonna need loads of sympathy later, when empty looks have faded and can no longer secure her a life of luxury - I know of a lady in precisely that situation right now - one of my friends met her through a dating site )
This is not the kind of world I move around in, not that I don't know people who do, or have had the opportunity.... I chose not to be "bought" by money more than once... My life has been harder as a consequence but the satisfaction of knowing I don't "owe" anyone anything and being my own person is worth all the yatchs, diamonds, and palaces...
Anctus is also saying that a man shouldn't marry a beautiful woman because they are fickle and if another man comes along with more money they'll be off... Some women might do that... but then so would some men!
A lot of very superficial nonesense!
Attraction is never just about how beautiful they "look" and or how well off they are Surely!
Well ... if that is all there is to "a successful relationship... Wow! that's where I been getting it wrong all this time! When I left both of my husbands, I so got it wrong! I left them for a better quality of life (emotionally) MINUS a rich gorgeous new boyfriend for me! Drat! I wish I'd known! I certainly would be considerably richer today!
I'm moving! Out of UK Final destination not yet decided, but a couple of stops and stays at "secret locations" in immediate future already worked out...
I used to be where you are. Changing one's lifestyle is really scary at first but I have never felt better. I'm in last phase of making the changes to my life so that I can live like "who I am". It means letting go of certain "established" securities. Very very scary but then it changed to very very exciting and freedom! It's like someone has nocked off 10 years off my age and how I feel about myself! It's a wonderful feeling
It's not too late to do at least some of the things you "failed to do" ...
And the things you did do... they serve to further make you appreciate what you do want for yourself!
My life is very much blessed. What would make my life happier? A jet plane! (not to own... to use...) failing that the ability to materialise in a different location as and when...
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