Tell me positive stories of lone parents finding love please

[incandescent]

Been single for six long years, now have gorgeous baby DD but obviously don't get out much. See lifetime of solitude ahead...
Just turned 34 and desperately want two more babies...

Can you tell me your true life stories of the lone-parent finds-love -in-unlikely-place variety to spur me on at Christmas?

Go on, convince me it's not going to always be like this and that i can meet the man of my dreams too. Thanks !

Well, my friend had two wee boys and was on her own for about 8 years when she got together with her now husband after meeting at church. Boys love him and the feeling is mutual.

Me! Although it's only been a year and a bit. Have a 5 y/o ds, and had about given up, when I met bloke on holiday. Fingers crossed it stays good...and good luck in your search.

It does happen, not to me lol, but yeh it is possible.

My (now DH) was my taxi driver home after a night out. I a lone parent to a 6 mo baby boy at the time and definately not looking for a relationship.

Have now been together just over 10 years (married for 8) and have 2 gorgeous DD's as well as my DS.

Yay! These are great! Really cheering me up. Thanks girls. Keep 'em coming!

reality , hmmmm....maybe i should retake up smoking in my quest to find perfect man. And congratulations on your engagement!

sb6699 my dd is 6 months! you've certainly given me hope

I was on my own with 2 young DDs, never got out much. Started chattuing to a guy on a forum, who i realised lived near me. We chatted for ages, progressed to MSN chatting, the phone calls. Eventually met one evening for a drink.

That was 5 years ago, nor engaged, bought house together and have a wee boy together!

I have to add, I only met my DP after deciding that I was very happy single! Always the way, isnt it

I was on my own with my DD for seven years, met my DH at work and on our first date I knew he was the one - corny but true.

We had six months of dating before he met DD, later on bought a house together, got engaged and have now been married for 18 months and just had a DS.

My DD has changed her name to his by deed poll - she is now 11 - and we are all happy as Larry.

I was single for 4 years.
DS is autistic so thought it was near imossible for me to find anyone willing to take me and DD on let alone a "challenging" child with quite considerable additional needs.

didnt get out very often so couldnt see where i w ould ever get to meet anyone.

I went on my first ever tri abroad last summer for my friends hen weekend.
there were two other grous of men who were on a stag weekend, all of us from England. we all kind of joined up and had a real good time together.

I kept in touch with a couple of the guys from both groups when i returned home. some more frequently than others. I never considered a\nything would come of any of it other than a friendly chat every now and then.

After about 6 months 1 guy in particular emailed more than the others and we ended up chatting, a lot. eventually it dawned on me that mayube he wanted more than just friendship. It was not something i had even considered and dismissed the idea. I did the gentle disuasion technique so as not to hurt his feelings. i was obviously rubbish at it as we ended up texting and calling each other constantly.
we would sit on teh phone for literally hours at a time.

It got to the stage where if i hadnt heard from him for a few hours i would miss him.

It finally dawned on me that despite my lack of physical attraction to him i really r eally liked him.

we have been together for just over a year and i love him to bits. and i mean really really love him. something i dont think i can say about anyone else in my past.

he may not have been the man from my dreams but he is the man i want to be with whilst awake

oh GOD i KNEW this was you, you twat!
you'll meet someone brilliant, because you're GORGEOUS and clever and GORGEOUS and funny and GORGEOUS and a freak.

I was single for a little over 2 years. Ds was 2.1 when i bumped into a friend a year ago (about to the day) who invited me out boxing day. Met her mate boxing day got together in january, got engaged a few months later. DP has just moved in with me and get married in may

and i can vouch for realities DP being an absolute Star of a ste dad. he puts many biological fathers to shame.

and yes i also agree with things finally haening because you are ready.
its like losing your fave CD or something, you only find it once youve stopped looking. i believ its the same with men. just use your energy on making you happy in your own skin and soon enough Mr right for you will turn up

Fuck, maybe I should have a kid...

Broke up with father of my kid while I was pg.
After an even more disastrous relationship, I put the bad pants on of the mind on and was determent NEVER NEVER NEVER go near another man again.

I managed to get funding to do a drawing class through a organisation called CEEED in bristol and to put my DD into private nursery.
I was going to show the basturds!
I was having lunch around corner of art collage, and I was wearing my genuine world war two pilot jacket I picked up from a second had shop, some bloke sat across from me looked like he had a spring up his arss and eventually came over, he was involved in making a computer game that was a flight sim of a B17 and says he was interested in my jacket. I was having trouble with my computer at the time and was looking for advice (yea I know, but he wouldn?t do it, insisted he teach me how to do it my self, which is better I suppose).
Hell he wasnt that bad looking apart from a seriously bloody awful mustache.
We dated for quite a while (Weird for me) and told him I wasn?t going to kiss him until he shaved of the mustache.
He ran up and grabbing a rusty bic did the deed there and then. Was surprised to find an attractive chap underneath it.
Several days later he asked me to swing by his office on the way to lunch and I got a round of applause from his work mates and congratulated on removing the mustache.
8 years later, remarkable we are still together.
Somehow,
Jesus where did that go?

Woops! Not CEEED, Sorry that was that should be CEED, link to them for anyone intrested and liveing in the ST Pauls area. www.ceed.co.uk/

I was a single mum for nearly 10 years (had the odd horrid boyfriend in this time).

On the first day of a new job I saw a man so stunning that i went all shaky and couldn't barely speak when we were introduced. A month in, I heard on the grapevine that he fancied me - I promised myself I wouldn't go near him as we was just far too gorgeous (think young Harrison Ford) and 6 years younger than me.

After about a year of me being ice-queen, we had a drunken kiss in the pub. I thought i was a fool, but a year later we were married!

We have now been together nearly 5 years. he's a brilliant step-dad to my DD and still worships the ground I walk on. He buys me fab Xmas and birthday presents and we are all blissfully happy!

It's never too late, I'm proof of that! Ex-h left 3 years ago when DD was just 7 and I was 49 and I thought that was it on the relationship front. But just 3 months ago I finally met the love of my life online. I was very determined and never gave up.

We're about to spend our first Christmas together, he's just wonderful and with 3 kids of his own hopefully we'll be able to make a go of being a happy extended family one day. I've never been happier