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"If you got an itch you should probably see a doctor. There's a cream for that.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\n\n\tI'll say it again-- but I don't think that having few partners, or finding your forever person at a young age is boring or bad at all.\n \n\n\n\tBut you're not wrong about the kid thing. Obviously my last long term relationship had her in a step mom level role and it made things extra hard on the kid when we split. There's not a lot of people who stay in contact with their step parent if they are no longer with the blood parent. My son and ex still talk, but it's clear that he has put up a wall. Dating as an adult with a kid is super hard because you don't ever want to put them in that spot again. That's kind of why I decided to be up front with current dates that I am not on a path to starting a family or cohabitation until after my kid is out on his own. I won't put him through that wringer again. When I was a kid, my dad brought home every girlfriend he had and all but forced me to bond with them-- only for them to be gone forever a couple months later. \n \n\n\n\tThere's also a double standard that as a single middle-aged father who is hands on with their kid, I score MAJOR points with ladies-- and yet, those exact same qualities in a woman will send dudes running.\n \n\n\n\tAlso, as all my female friends tell me, having a nice place, clean bathrooms, a sense of decor, a car, and a career puts me one up over most dudes they meet. And as a very LA specific thing, when I say I am a writer I have to specify in my dating profiles that I am WGA, otherwise \"screenwriter\" is code for \"I will sleep over and never leave.\"\n "
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