Growing up in Texas, my mom was a single mom. She worked her butt off for me and my brother. She held two jobs so that I could take dance classes and my brother had football cleats. My mom also had a social life and went on dates. She was single for 14 years before she found my step father.

According to Andrea Arterbery Cosmopolitan, there are 9 essential tips that need to be known when dating a single mom. I will be breaking 7 of the tips Cosmo mentions but in the perspective of the child. I am not a single mother, but I do know what it was like having a single mom who dated.

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Tips When Dating a Single Mom by Cosmo Broken Down

Cosmo Tip 1. Pretty much everything has to be planned.

Ginger Break Down: Growing up we had so much going on. Mom was holding multiple jobs and my brother and I had baseball practices and dance practices. Cosmo was definitely had this one right.

Cosmo Tip 2. My time is extremely precious.

Ginger Break Down: This is kind of an add on to the first tip. I remember my mom having to plan everything in this black leather planner. Dance on Tuesdays and football on Thursdays and tons of other things she had to remember.

Cosmo Tip 3. Meeting my kids is a very big deal.

Ginger Break Down: I remember getting to meet the guys my mom dated. Some I liked and some I didn't and she took notice of that. Mom made sure that we approved of the guys, but also that we were accepting and got to know the guy before making our judgements.

Cosmo Tip 5. My Child is my main priority.

Ginger Break Down: My mother made this very clear when she dated. Some guys didn't like that so much, but she would tell me that we were a package deal. If they wanted a relationship with her they had to try and get to know us.

Cosmo Tip 6. There might be an ex in the picture, but that doesn't mean there are feelings.

Ginger Break Down: From what I can remember as a kid, mom didn't really have this issue. Probably because my father had already re-married so there was never really an suspicion of any lingering feelings, but then again I was a kid. I didn't really pick up on that sort of thing.

Cosmo Tip 7. I don't need to be saved.

Ginger Break Down: Hallelujah! I love that Cosmo had this in there list of tips. My mom was a fantastic mother. She worked her heart out to take care of us, but she didn't need a man to be a provider or to heal her. She was independent.

For what it matters, Cosmo had some pretty awesome tips. I used to think that Cosmo was just for giggles but this article and many others that have been written are really interesting and well written.

 

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