FlowerOfTheSun Forum Posts (1,017)
Always thought that on'es better half has nothing to do with another person but instead has to do with what is within ... 
It's great for parties!!! Can have a great time and a lot of fun feeling "merry or high" WITHOUT touching a drop of alcohol or any other substances!! Keeps the body healthy AND it's sooooooooooooo cheap!! 
I hadn't read FreeSpirit's post when I wrote mine!!
Meant to write "THis is NOT diected at you Aries! Sorry!!!
Agree!!! Let and let live!! ... Unless somebody physically grabs you and forces you to experience or listen to stuff you have no urge to be part off!!!! 
This could also apply to platonic but strong friendships.
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RE: Women with Kids
In my case, I experienced first hand what parental extreme discord can do to the mind of a child (my parents had terrible fights most of their married life ... it's taken until now they are in their mid 70's to "calm down") ... For reason that I don't care to disclose here, when my marriage came to an end AND he refused to leave, I had to go ... I found one room to rent a couple of miles down the road ... my children stayed in their own homes (officially with their Dad) so that their school routine and everyday life was as little disturbed as it could (under the circumstences). I went and stayed with them (in my ex-home) everyday after they'd finished school (I was a teacher so we finished at same time) and left just before their father was due home (we had an au-pair living with us when we split up and she stayed on after I moved out - she had nothing to do with the break-up BTW).I looked after them during all the school holidays - doesn't matter about being cramped when they don't need to get ready for school or me for work and there is no homework to deal with ... and there is no rush to use the batroom or washing mashine courtesy of the friend who's room I was renting -
This went on for 8 months till I was able to find suitable accommodation that I could afford, for all of us (my kids and me) and then I made a deal with my ex ... I gave up my share of the marital home for him to agree that my children come and live with me ... I could have fought a court battle to have my children AND the marital home but I honestly could not handle the stress of it all ...
Many years later, just after my daughter "had flown the nest" my son who was younger decided to go and live with his father who had the whole time been seeing the children weekly. He was by then a teenager and needed to do guy things with his Dad, more than he needed to spend every day with his Mum. I was desolate when he moved to his Dads, my home never felt the same again now they were both gone ... BUT my son's needs were more important than mine. He still came to eat with me mid-week after school and came to stay at the weekend ...
If I had been filling out a profile at that stage what would I have chosen "yes, but don't live with me" OR "grown and left the nest"? Because it was one of each?
As many people have already posted ... reasons and circumstances ... no one can judge from afar ...