Iceshowers Posted December 14, 2015 Posted December 14, 2015 Mom and dads who are dating another person with child(ren), do you have a "rule" when you bring kids together (like 3 months, 6 months, 1 year), or does it vary depending on how the relationship progresses? Do you also take age into consideration? Like if the kids are less than 5, you do play"dates" sooner? And if they're older, you wait longer to bring them around? I just want to see how other parents usually go about this. I'm very strict on who sees my baby and who my baby gets to know (He's 4). I've only dated twice since my child's father, and the first date never even got to see my child (I did't feel that relationship was progressing to a committed one anytime soon, and it was only 3 months that it lasted. Plus he wasn't a dad himself, so I felt he wouldn't understand the whole parenting thing).
andie1969 Posted December 14, 2015 Posted December 14, 2015 I started dating my BF in Feb., he has a 13 year old son, I have a 12 year old daughter. They did not meet until July and that was at an amusement park, we both went separately and "accidentally met up" there. Rode a few rides together and had lunch, then went and did our own thing. It was a nice, low-key, neutral way to introduce them to each other. Since then, things just progressed from picnics to now we have "family" dinner and game/movie night every other weekend when we both have our kids. 1
Glitters Posted December 14, 2015 Posted December 14, 2015 My kids were grown teenagers and my husbands were little. We didn't introduce them till we both were 100% about one another. After that it was slow introduction then more. Yours is a baby and I wouldn't advice you to introduce early on as kids get attached very easily and they don't want to get confused with new man often.
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