Busy and Blended

Heather's Perspective Dating. *cue the anxiety* The game changed so much from before I had Bear to once I had her and was ready to potentially introduce a man into our lives. I had Bear when I was in college and waited until after I’d graduated and had a stable job as a nurse for a year before I started dating again. At that point there was Tinder, POF, Farmers Anonymous (shout out to my Father-In-Law who should try this one), and all of the other online dating sites. I swear those weren’t how people dated before! If I wasn’t good at the traditional way of dating how was an app and a profile going to help me? And what was Catfishing?!?! Y’all - apparently I’d been living under a rock!! After contemplating the likelihood that online dating would end in me on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries I figured “Why Not!” and made myself a profile on a free site. Making a dating profile taught me three things. 1. I had no idea what I wanted!! The profile asked what I was looking for in a pe...

Jessi's perspective I'm about to get real real over here y'all, are you ready? If you have ever walked away from a divorce and there are kids involved, come on women we group ourselves with our kids right? We don't want to be alone or do alone thinking so we lump ourselves with our children so we have other people who are in this situation with us so somehow we don't have to admit that this relationship was over for us (the adult) and not the children. It's a hard pill to swallow to realize that your kids are still going to be part of the life of the other parent and you aren't. I completely understand if you did this or are still doing it, you may not even notice you are doing it, but it's seriously ok to come to the realization that your kids don't follow the same path as you in the divorce journey, you guys are both your kids' parents so you have to swallow that pride pill and accept there are 2 parents. I thought I would feel the swallowin...