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7 Tips For Dating As A Single Mom

7 Tips For Dating As A Single Mom

These tips will earn you MILF status this Mother's Day

Being a single mom is hard. Being a single mom and trying to balance parenting and dating is even header. Here are some tips for not only dating as a single mom, but to bring out the sexiness within.

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One rule: know that you can't fill the father role.

5 Lessons Every Single Mother Should Learn

An expert and single mother shares what she's learned in raising her two boys alone.

Whether you're a single mother because of divorce, death or an absentee father, here are five tips you should know!

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Unsolicited advice driving you nuts?

Help! My Boyfriend Gives Me Unwanted Parenting Advice

What to do as a single mother when your significant other butts his nose where it doesn't belong.

If you're a single parent dating a non-parent who offers unsolicited advice and commentary about your parenting skills, you've probably had it up to here.

How Working Moms Can Make Guilt-Free Choices

How Working Moms Can Make Guilt-Free Choices

Read more here on how to battle some struggles moms can face during the holiday season.

by 5 Simple Steps to Choosing Your Path, W. Granville Brown, for GalTime.com As a professional life coach, I’m privileged to have some very successful career women as clients. I’ve discovered that many of them face challenges quite different than those encountered by men. For example, consider the deep feelings of guilt many working mothers experience.

Once Upon a time...

Once Upon a time...

A little girl asks her mom tough questions about Divorce, Loss of love, and remarriage.

Once Upon a time there was a kind little girl with questions in her heart. Once upon a time there was a mom who was ready to answers those tough questions. It is a familiar story: boy meets girls, falls in love, gets married, has lovely daughter, grows apart, and gets divorced. I knew the day would come when Mina would begin to start asking me questions about my marriage and recent divorce with her father. She is almost 6 and I thought I had, maybe, a few more years before an in depth conversation.

5 Ways For Single Moms To Have Some Fun [EXPERT]
Take some time away from the kids.

5 Ways For Single Moms To Have Some Fun

Learn how to make friends and make time for dating, too!

Do you feel like you spend your entire life doing things for everyone else? Are you constantly doing presentations at work, making dinner, doing laundry and running your kids to soccer practice or ballet class? Sometimes it's just too much! Does a single mom ever get a break?

7 Tips To Raising A Great Dad [EXPERT]
Does your son have the qualities of a great dad?

7 Tips To Raising A Great Dad

When you are a single mom, raising boys is tough. Here's how to help your sons become great dads.

After raising my own sons and working with hundreds of other single moms, I have come up with a few suggestions that can guide you in building the foundation your son needs to be a great father.

I'm A Single Mom; When Can My Boyfriend Sleep Over? [EXPERT]
Nice to meet you!

I'm A Single Mom; When Can My Boyfriend Sleep Over?

Is it time for your new man to meet your kids?

Dating as a single mom can be tricky. Among other things, you have to worry about whether it's the right time to introduce your children to the new man in your life. In this video, YourTango Expert Dr. Megan Fleming discusses how to tell when is the right moment for your love life to collide with your home life.

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Happy Mother's Day! Match.com decided to investigate the dating lives of single moms.

4 Surprising Facts About Single Mothers

Did you know that 45% of Match.com members have kids? The site conducted a study on single mothers.

Where is all of the love for the single moms of the world? (We're looking right at you, Rick Santorum.) Luckily, Match.com has a ton of respect for the single ladies of the world, including those who have birthed a child or two. To celebrate Mother's Day, Match took a look at the profiles of its single-mom users.

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"To be a single mother of four and work as much as I do... It's pretty challenging."

Madonna: I Need To Be A "Tougher" Single Mom On Lourdes

The superstar confesses, "I'm not as tough as I should be."

Madonna may have the music industry and an adoring public wrapped around her litle finger, but when it comes to raising a family, the single mom confesses that it's not always so easy.