After 18 months of being emotionally separated from my WAW and 5 months of being physically separated, I started dating recently and was absolutely floored by how fast some people want to take things. First woman out the gate had indications of being a "bunny boiler". In her mind after 4 dates we needed to discuss "where we were at".

Like Kerry, I too have somewhat young children (13 and almost 12) and I'm 51 (ouch that hurts to type crazy), so a lot of my time is devoted to them. I have found that I don't really have a lot of time right now to devote to a new relationship even if I wanted one. Plus, I'm not completely confident that my girls would be happy if Dad had a girlfriend yet. So, although I long for some adult female compaionship I've decided to step back from the dating circuit for a littlebit longer.

BA