Dada always doing nursery run, is he single?

[ByDandyTurtle]

Aibu in thinking he must be single as I never see a woman drop of the child

I want to approach him but unsure

Maybe her ex is a teacher so collects their child during his time off…

The fact this bloke ALWAYS does school stuff alone would suggest his partner is either dead, disabled or works in a nursery herself - taking her annual leave on the days child doesn’t attend nursery - which makes sense as I wouldn’t use annual leave and still drop DC at nursery… so I’d plan my holidays for days DC is home.

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Oh God no! 🙈 Don't encourage the OP to follow this man! 😱

And the they'll all live happily ever after.

@Namechange822 Clearly you don't know any married primary teachers! Hands off my husband - I'm not dead!! 😄

Or maybe he has a partner who isn't the child's mother? I was in a relationship with a father who had full custody of his child due to her being an unfit mother, but he had a partner, me.

My husband did all of the nursery drop offs and pick ups as it was closer to his work and mine was the opposite direction. His partner may not have the kind of job that would allow her time off for something so pointless as a nursery sports day.
If he is single, then his partner must be dead or have no involvement with her child. Not impossible obviously, but less likely than her simply being at work.

maybe it’s easier for him because he drives and she does not, maybe it’s closer to his work, maybe she is the main earner and does not have the flexibility. there is so many reasons why he does them and not her. once ds is nursery age i would probably rely on him for the pick up and drop offs as i can’t drive and am unable to unless it is walking distance or good public transport but again it might be easier for dh to do it then. i would hate for all nursery mums to think like you did and think i did not exist

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I think you quoted the wrong person, I commented my DH did all drop offs and pick ups.

Is someone gonna warn Dada? 😬😱

Poor bloke. You can see from some of the responses on here though why most women wouldn't dare try and be friendly with a man in that situation.

Correctly quoted with a touch of sarcasm 😊

Yeah, i feel a bit sorry for the dads if they get so shunned. My dh really wants to make more parent friends and finds it quite hard - I'm starting to understand why.

I'm also finding all the 'hands off my husband'- comments so funny. If an offer of coffee rocks the marriage so much, there's most likely other issues there already.

My husband does the nursery drop offs and pick ups, and he doesn’t get ‘shunned’. He just chats like everyone else. Other dads besides him do the nursery runs too. I really don’t think a nursery is a good place to pick up men, sounds very odd to me. In fact, many of these posts on this thread are mad.

@Plastictreees I don't think the OP intended to use it as a place to "pick up men" she just happened to have noticed one she likes. Just out of interest, where did you meet your husband?

I was referring to another poster who suggested it’s a good place to find men.

We met on a dating app, not a nursery thankfully.

Isn't it weird how the times have changed though in the last 10 years, people used to be embarrassed to say they had met their partners on dating sites! Now its only that! If you try to do it the old fashioned (braver IMO) way it appears to be frowned upon! Like your some sort of perv!

My husband does all the school runs as he owns his own business and isn’t answerable to anyone whereas I have to get to the office / be online before 9. Another mum seriously embarrassed herself with my dh thinking similarly….

What's wrong with meeting at a nursery?

I just don’t think a nursery is a good spot to ‘pick up’ men. Obviously.

@TalkToTheHand123 , What's wrong with meeting at a nursery?

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flightissue · Today 14:50
My husband does all the school runs as he owns his own business and isn’t answerable to anyone whereas I have to get to the office / be online before 9. Another mum seriously embarrassed herself with my dh thinking similarly….

If done the right way, as in have general chat to find out a person's situation first without presumption it would be. To talk with the presumtion of being single I wouldn't agree with.

When I was an operating theatre nurse, I worked 8-6, and the nursery the dses went to was open 8-6. Luckily dh could go to work a bit later than 8am and leave before 6pm, so he did all the drop offs and pick ups - dropping me at work before taking them to nursery, then picking them up before me in the evening.

So it may be something as simple as mum’s working hours not fitting in with doing the drop offs and pick ups, @ByDandyTurtle. Or mum is disabled/ill so dad does them all.

Maybe the best thing to do is to start by being friendly - get to know him and other parents, then see if anything develops once you know what his circumstances are.

GOOD GOD GIRL! CONTROL YOURSELF!

Your children haven't even graduated from university and you're thinking within your underwear!

HARLOT!

What other places (other than dating apps) do you think are good?