Welcome to belly belly, singledad.

We are all parents here, or about to me, or wanting to be, all on some kind of a journey.

i have one child, and she came along late in my life (not my choice) and i sometimes worry about her being an only child, and what the gap might be, if a miracle happened, and i did have another child. Her father and i live together, but as housemates, co-parenting. R'ship is non existent but neither of us can raise a bond to move out, so we stay.

So i'm in a bizarre situation of living in the same unit as my child's father, but feeling, in many ways, like a single parent.

The great thing about forums like this, is when you are going thru whatever with your child, you can post questions, or have a vent, and other people pop up, sharing what they tried with their child, in that same or similar situation - or just commiserate with you.

Much of parenting, i have found pretty lonely (in real life), so it's been great to get support like this, in this cyber way.

I relate to what you said, about people WITHOUT kids, thinking about life so differently. I've experienced that with people older than myself too, so to my surprise, it's not just a "young clubbers" attitude, any agegroup can have it. Including ones that DID have kids, but that was decades ago, and they've forgotten what it's like.

I've just toilet trained my child a few months ago, so sing out if you still want info on that topic. If i can help, i will.

Welcome, i think it takes a brave man to join a forum with a predominantly female membership. But you have lots in common, we all love our kids to bits.