Posts by mmace

Quote: mmace - what a busy day! I was tired just from reading about it! BTW, what's a "beer store"? Here in Pennsylvania you can't buy beer anywhere other than beer distributors. Same with liquor - that...

These are fantastic - and I love that I inspired a thread, a good thread too! My only regret is the financial/career one. I married at 19 and dropped out of college to work while he finished his degree. Our first was born when I...

Quote: See, I think these two ideas are opposites. I see plenty of erroneous thinking among partnered people who assume that if they choose a partner carefully and work hard on their partnership, that the partnership will...

Quote: Please, stop attacking me! I was just trying to point out that we all make mistakes. We all get into situations that we probably had SOME signs were coming down the pike! I'm not trying to blame everyone on here for...

Yesterday for me was errand, Errand, ERRAND after ERRAND! I left the house at 9:00ish and went: to the BP for gas and a cappuccino out of their machine, Goodwill to drop stuff off, Sherwin-Williams for paint for my kitchen, to one bank...

Me again! You know what else?! This comment: Quote: I'm surprised, because on a single parent's board it should be obvious that most of us are guilty of making a poor choice of coparents. is also extremely...

Quote: Please be careful not to generalize about single parents - we are a very diverse group of people. For instance, MY husband (bio-father of my child, although never my co-parent) left ME (for a new wife). I didn't do...

I'm another vote for having him borrow clothes from a friend - my daughter and her friends do this all the time, and it's no big deal.

I have full physical and legal custody of my kids and my X has "reasonable visitation". He is not on any of the pick-up paperwork at my kids schools, and the school wouldn't even recognize him if he walked to the door. ...

Beloved, that is sooooo wonderful!!!! I can't wait to hear every single detail!