Originally posted in parenting but not any responses and would like to nip this in the bud as quickly as possible!
I wonder if anyone can advise me on this situation. I am a lone parent to 4 children. Ex left me when I was pregnant with the last child and had 3 older children to look after (oldest who has asd) he never looked back. Has had no contact in over 3 years (all his choice) dd who is the oldest has autism and recently has been struggling with the fact she doesn’t have a father. In fact I would say she’s fixated on it. It doesn’t help that I have very little family, I guess she feels like a piece of her is missing. It’s all she bangs on about. Not necessarily her dad but she seems to want any dad. Keeps asking me to find her a new dad confused calls her teacher dad, today I picked her up from school and she was crying her eyes out saying she wants her teacher to be her dad. As you can imagine it’s very embarrassing I’m not gonna lie about that it is very embarrassing. I’ve tried to explain to her that some children only have their mums and not a dad but that didn’t work as it goes back to well find me a new dad then, or get a step dad, the way she talks you would think I was the only single parent. I really need some advice on how I can get her to accept it? (Just for reference of the thread I have never dated since my ex left so I’m not sure where it’s coming from)