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Anonymous asked in Family & RelationshipsMarriage & Divorce · 6 days ago

Why some people say that men cannot accept women with a child?

When I've seen countless real life examples where the guy actually fell in love, married, and even had further children with said woman?! I'm definately not in this position but I was just thinking about this type of man. One of the main reasons I had problems in my last serious relationship was because the HE was the one with a child! I know I know it was immature of me to do and I realize now that if I really loved  someone, I had to accept their past! Not like they could have changed it! 

Updated 6 days ago:

"Why do "some people" say anything? It's a matter of personal choice. I married a widower with 5 children. You either are accepting of other people's children or you ae not. It's that simple." Thanks but you're kind of insulting me when you say 'it's that simple'. For one thing I was younger back then and it was VERY difficult as I was already getting very attatched to guy, have regular sex and all... I was having personal conflicts! Here was a man who rather had

Updated 6 days ago:

 (a lot) of the things I wanted in a guy in the looks and intelligence department but totally flunked it out in the never married before nor had children before dapartment, plus he had anger, maturity, abuse and drug issues so yes I left him more for those reasons but him having the kind of past he had truly didn't help my feelings towards him! 

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  • T J
    Lv 7
    6 days ago

    I would not even date anyone with a kid, let alone marry them.

  • Anonymous
    6 days ago

    Why do "some people" say anything?  It's a matter of personal choice.  I married a widower with 5 children.  You either are accepting of other people's children or you are not.  It's that simple.

  • 6 days ago

    Men by nature aren't superficial though society loves to claim otherwise..

    - men have never judged women on height... Unlike women who are known for judging men on height... Most men wouldn't have any problem dating/marrying a woman taller than them.

    - men don't judge women on social status... whereas most women to this day still judge men on this area.

    -men don't judge women on race or skin color... whereas most women care about the man's skin color.

    - men don't judge women on ability to tell jokes whereas most women judge men on this area.

    not only many men care little about whether a woman has children from a previous relationship but additionally many men are raising children that their wives procreated as a result of an extramarital affair (I know this from personal experience)... Whereas most women want to divorce their husband if he cheats... they divorce him and leave him homeless.

    yet men are the ones labeled as "superficial" whereas women are "romantic".

    The fact that men aren't picky when it comes to women explains why anthropologists have discovered that we have way more female ancestors than male ancestors.

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