What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
One month being single and then finding yourself attracted and looking, is about right on schedule. It happens like clockwork, this rebound effect. It's easier to think about a new person than it is about the discomfort of break up, the disappointment of it, to seek a balm for our wounds. Suddenly you are free again, and in that, there is hope to "do it right this time". What is hardest is to adjust to the reality of single parenting, to live it one day at a time as a single parent, instead of not being present and imagining what it would be like to have another person. Give yourself time as a single man who is a father. You have two roles now, as nurturer and provider, and that takes a lot of energy! Instead of seeking out wifey material, try instead to make friends with other single parents, I cannot stress enough the value in these friendships. Your child comes first, always, you created a life that you are now responsible for, it would be great to have a partner, sure, but I think it is too soon, personally. Take time to get to know yourself, if you are young, and healthy, life is long when lived one day at a time. God always provides, especially when you are not seeking, at least that has been my experience. In my 12 step recovery, we had advice to newbies, and that is, to stay out of any new relationships for 1 year, because they become a distraction to what you have to do to grow. Casual friendships are fine, (I do not mean hook ups!!!!!). But if the first thing that you tell yourself is that you are looking for a future partner when you see a girl you like, whoa boy, !! Take it slow, what seems attractive to you now, may not be the same thing you seek later on as you grow. Not to mention that workplace situations can get icky and awkward. Try not to boomerang, its normal, but resist it, I speak from experience.
THIS! 👆
This^