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MinM

1) Rubicon doesn't start until August. AMC is a big fat tease.

2) I disagree about parents getting remarried. I wish my mom would have gotten remarried for a couple of reasons: 1) companionship for herself now that we are all out of the house, 2) Sister #2 and I were old enough to understand (11-12) and sister 3 was just a baby, and doesn't remember our father and never would have known any different. I think it would have benefitted all of us to have a male figure in our lfe.

Of course, this is my personal experience and our unique situation.

(That being said, teh suck that is FB has brought my loser father's family back into our lives and sister #2 actually has father's phone number. When she offered it to me, I lost my eyebrows. I think the divorced messed her up more than me if she wants to talk to some guy who abandoned us "because he is my dad.")

nicoleg1982

I would want to talk to him, too.  To find out his address and run his nutsack over with a lawnmower while sipping a strong drink.

MinM

Well, yes, that would be my motivation, too, Nico. But please to be recalling he owes six figures in child support, so he never gives up his address, lest the officials come find him and make him pay. For this reason, he works jobs where he gets paid under the table and has even stated he's rather go to jail (which he has) than pay child support.

He quits any job he has once he is found out and they start garnishing his wages (if he can't get paid under the table work). Oh, dad indeed!

hmonkey

[QUOTE]I would want to talk to him, too.  To find out his address and run his nutsack over with a lawnmower while sipping a strong drink.
Posted by nicoleg1982[/QUOTE]

nico, you always know what to say.

baconsmom

A lot of people disagree with me, and that's cool. Y'all know I'm no stranger to unpopular opinions.

I'm also less pearl-clutchy about older kids and kids who can't remember (though there had better be abandonment or jail or something if a kid's that young and one parent has flown the coop.). But the 3-to-teenaged window is something I'd never fck with. Even if I were totally single, I wouldn't date a guy with a kid that age. 

MinM

I wouldn't either, personally. And I think my mom was worried about dating and bringing weird men around us. You hear stories all the time of the creepy boyfriend coming into the daughter's room at night.

However, I think it would have done us all some good, including my mom (of course, if it had gone done sans molestation).