By Debra Davis
How can you tell the right husband from the wrong one. Well basically you can’t. But you can do something to get an idea of how one has been so far. You can get info from his family (which they will lie to get one to date him) or you can do a background check. I sure wish I had done that with my second husband (man, did he turn out to be a joke). He was a good husband at first. Then when our first daughter was born, he wouldn’t help too much. No changing diapers, he stayed up with her when she was colicy. He was up late at night anyway. And he changed jobs like his underwear.
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By April Williams

Last night one if my ten year old twins told me that he noticed a new number when he was going through my cell phone. I stood there in shock and dread hit me like a cannonball in the gut. I realized that I am raising my children to think that it’s normal for a mother not to have an “opposite sex relationship” outside of being a good mother. His tone and demeanor suggested that I was in trouble for having a male name in my phone. Where is the boundary between mothering and answering to that inner woman? Why is it that some of us feel like we are bad mothers for wanting to date sometimes? I asked a few parents and the response I got was encouraging and fair. There has to be an understanding with children that they are always first and will continue to be, but mom or dad will have to have time for other adults.
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