A woman explains why she only dates recently divorced dads
Photo: J.V. Aranda Welcome to It’s Complicated, stories on the sometimes frustrating, sometimes confusing, always engrossing subject of modern relationships. For me, this has never been a good thing. What was it going to be this time — that he “wasn’t exactly” single? That his definition of a full-time job was “loose”? That his profile pictures were from 2007? I braced myself.
Since then, recently divorced men with kids have been pretty much the only men I date. It is now a running joke among my friends, who will tag me in photos on Instagram of men wearing T-shirts that say “Zaddy” or text me things like “Saw a dad wearing a Baby Bjorn and jean shorts at work today. Thought of you.” They’ll send me pictures of dads they covertly snap on the Trader Joe’s checkout line.When my friends’ teasing made me a little self-conscious, I tried to expand my dating pool.
For the same reason, it feels like a blessing, not an insult, to be told that I’m not the No. 1 person in their life. I would never want to date someone who would want to put me before their children, and establishing this boundary helps keep myself in check and not allow my relationship to define me.
The hands-down best part about dating DDs, though, is that coming out of long-term relationships, most of them are down to experiment with all kinds of crazy stuff in bed: Whether it was trying out new nipple clamps, do a Great British Bakeoff–style flavored condom taste test, or having sex to a playlist of the absolute worst songs to have sex to , divorced dads were game.
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