Dating a Man Who is Going Through a Divorce

You meet this guy and he is great. You go out to dinner and start talking. You find out that his divorce is not final yet. What do you do? You have to be strong and let him know immediately that you do not want to get involved with a man that is not divorced yet. If you wait and get involved with him, you will never walk away. You will be too attached to him. It is better to break it off in the beginning before your feelings become a part of the already crazy emotions and feelings he has. He may say that things are over and it is okay. I would still stick to my word and tell him no until he is divorced. You are not ready for that roller coaster ride. You do not want to have a relationship with him and his ex wife. Especially if he has children. There is way too much there for you to be taken seriously as a part of his life right now. He may not be strong enough to admit that. You are!

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Where is he at? Why can't you get in touch with him? Why does he disappear at times and not return phone calls? It might be because he is still trying to work things out with his soon to be ex-wife. He will have to spend time with her to go over final things pertaining to the divorce. During those times it will be emotional for both of them. If you are involved it will be more emotional for them. She will most likely be upset that he has moved on and throw that up in his face. She may even try to hold it against him in court. Worst of all, she might use it to keep his children away from him. You do not want to be the cause of all of that drama. Do yourself and him a favor and walk away until the divorce is finalized.   

Some men will not realize that they don't want the divorce until they are faced with it head on. This tends to make them rethink things and want to make things work. This is what happened in my situation. I had been involved with this man for a few months when I find out that he had agreed with his soon to be ex wife that he would try to work it out with her. That only lasted 2 weeks but it broke my heart. I could not believe it was happening. He had been married for 22 years. He said that he felt like he owed it to her to try to make it work. After two weeks he called it off at the marriage counselors office and came looking for me. I had mentally shut him out by then. I did not think he would come back to me. I had to then figure out if I wanted to be with him and ride that roller coaster called divorce. I did it and had to deal with her fighting for him for the next 3 years. She did everything she could to make him feel sorry for her so that he would come back to her. She would call crying night after night. I had to listen to him talking her through her emotional fits. Or I had to let him go home so he could do it in private. Neither was a good situation. I should have called it off and told him to get divorced first. I could have saved myself a lot of heart ache. If it was meant to be then we would have been together when his divorce was final. Don't go through what I did.

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He may try to convince you to continue to see him while he is going through his divorce. Think about the fact that there are 3 of you in the relationship. Do you really want that? Tell him no and stick to it. Do not continue to see him for an innocent dinner or movie. You are not helping yourself by getting emotionally attached to him. He is still married and needs to complete that phase of his life before he can move on to the next. Please take it from someone who has been there. It is not somewhere you want to be. Stay strong and stick to it!