This Poll made me laugh

[Liffey]

guess how I voted

[Liffey]

Excuse the bad netiquette of pasting from another forum. Obviously mumsnet is better. !!

[singledadofthree]

well!!

how did you vote??

[Liffey]

I put NO WAY! I left the only comment I think.

[Liffey]

There may be lots out there, but you don't meet them at the school gate or at toddler groups.

[UnfortunatelyMurderedMe]

there must be, somewhere....

[singledadofthree]

read the blurb and would agree - if i'd known i'd be on my own with 3 kids at 40 i'd have made more of a go of me marraige.

[Liffey]

ah well there's hope then, you've come out of your marriage having learnt something.

I was presuming that the pollstress was divorced herself. I forget that some people my age are still waiting for prince charming.

At this point I'd settle for an Earl

[suwoo]

singledadofthree- I hope I am pissed and have misconstrued your irony...........

[Liffey]

I took SDof3's comment to mean he'd have worked harder at his marriage if he had a second run of things....

n'est pas???

[singledadofthree]

hmmm...try reading some of my irony free comments in the weird things ex's have said.

[Tidgypuds]

How depressing.

[singledadofthree]

and i dont seem to have learnt a thing as i'm still on my own and dont see it changing.

[TheNewsMonger]

Do your children live with you?

(liffey with a new name)

[singledadofthree]

hello liffey - with a new name.

they do, yes. and my comments are meant to be lighthearted so dont be taking me seriously well youve gotta laugh

[TheNewsMonger]

yupp. It's hilarious innit?! my sides are aching! I try to convince myself that I'm cool with being single. Maybe. ForEVER.

Tis definitely harder with children though. So you probably know better than some of the other single Dads on MN (apart from retired goth) what we're up against 'dating' jeez can't even type the word. I once became friendly flirty with a guy who I kept seeing when I had older child with me. He was probably thinking, OK she has a child, OK, hmm, OK. And then he saw me different time different place with BOTH children next day. I could see the cogs in his brain ticking around thinking ah no way lads two kids!!!

[singledadofthree]

i stopped trying to convince myself i was cool with it - tho after one or two scarily close encounters with a fatal attraction type i dropped out of 'dating' altogether for years.

not recommended - was it you that mentioned baggage somewhere? well as if i didnt have enough courtesy of my ex w, a long break didnt help...not sure what i mean by that - but it didnt.

and as for having three youngsters in tow, makes it hard enough for a woman - but impossible for a bloke. and so here i am, single for a while longer