Another blog post from a few years back. I think the advice is still good, but I’m so glad I’m retired from the dating circus! I never was any good at the trapeze. Just the thought of going on a first date now makes me shudder.

Dating… with children

There comes a time in a single mother’s life when she longs for someone to take her to dinner at a restaurant that doesn’t serve McChicken burgers – or McAnything, come to think of it.  Dinner… real food … with a glass of wine or two and some grown-up conversation. Is that too much to ask?

And so one ventures forth into the dating scene, which is enough of a seething swamp already, but is even more complicated when you have children as part of the package.

My friends know I’m an online dating veteran, so I was asked for advice the other day by another single mum who is thinking of following my dubious example.

“So, what do I need to know?” this sweet, innocent girl asked me, blissfully unaware of what lurks the other side of her modem.

Here, censored for general consumption, is my advice:

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