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A question for the older men, a hypothetical scenario…

(Women can certainly answer too, but it might be a bit trickier)

Suppose you received a message from reliable sources advising you that you have a child you didn’t know about, from someone you briefly dated. The circumstances are thus:

The child is an adult, and successful. They need nothing from you.

Your child is not angry at you, he/she knows that the mother never told you about their birth.

All the person wants, if you’re agréable, is to meet you, maybe for coffee.

So, based upon this premise, three questions:

1) Would you be willing to meet this child ?

2) If you hit it off, would you be open to an ongoing relationship ?

3) Would the existence of this child, even under these circumstances, complicate your life or cause problems ?
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robertsnj · 56-60, M
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1) yes willing to meet
2) yes relationship
3) yes complicate life / althogh i might change the word choice to life altering.

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I decided when I was about 25 ish that children were not for me and I do not have any. I was really careful in the bedroom in terms of birth control. Alcohol kills my sex drive and I don't do drugs so I never did the crazy sex while drinking or high.

I did have a lot of sex in my lifetime, I realize that even being very careful somthing could have gone wrtong. I stayed friends with ex's more often than not after leaving them and they were not pregnant. My last long term GF was 52 when I was 38 and she had her tubes tied

Children alwasy complicate relationships even when they are planned. No way to know how but everyone that has a child, even by choice, has made a life altering decision even when the kids are adults. That life altering path may be a good one but still life altering.

I think it is a great question. I also think there will be a lot of "Nope not going to meet my child" but those people won't' post details on here.