Is it OK to discuss your dating experience NOW with your children????

Sitalong

Sitalong

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Many people struggle when it comes to dating and sharing their details about dating with their children... However, I think their is a median.
Should you or should you not? It really revolves around the relationship you form with your children, and how close you are to them. However, if you are still not in a committed relationship YET- keep in mind that your children are still connected to their father. Hence, it is wise to tell a friend before you start talking about your dating experience with your OWN kids. Your own friends can advise you better, plus will be more comfortable listening.

However, again, it really all depends on the relationship you have with you kids.
What do you think?

If you over fifty, and dating, should you share details about your dates with your children?
Answer: Hold back just a bit, and wait until the relationship gets a bit serious.. .

Anyone thoughts????
 

This is a long story, so bear with me.
having divorced my first husband, I 're-met' a guy I had gone out with when I was 13; my mother had banned us meeting.
so...... 36 years later, he came to see me again, and never really left.
we were married 8 weeks later; so discussing it with the kids was tricky, time-wise, and my elder son, then 25, was very angry that he hadn't been told earlier....so you win some, you lose some.
We had 5 great years together, then he had the temerity to die on me..
 
I think a lot would depend on what your intention was for your reason for wanting to share. Are you telling them funny stories, or about your dates from hell? Or are talking about sharing that your dating with younger children or adult children after a divorce or death of their father or mother? I'm confused and not sure what you are actually talking about.
 

I think it is a question of people's different experiences. My next-door neighbour has started dating again, including his 14 year old daughter.....too soon in my opinion, but there you are!
 
my children are 42 and 37 yrs old and after their father died and I met someone I didn't tell them right away...kind of eased into it but they were okay with it and liked him and actually my 2nd oldest grandson was 6 months old when my husband died so he really thought of this man as his grandpa and liked him a lot...too bad he turned out to be a jerk.

Now if I meet someone I think I would tell my kids right away, for one thing if I didn't answer the phone one night when my daughter would call, she would have the police at my door. Lol.
 
I agree, plus, as you, and they, get older, they appear to prefer not to have to look after you, in my experience.
 
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