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Quote From: cherie1259

Hi I am a single mother and have been for 11 years now. I have spent a large part of the last 11 years learning, growing and pulling a life together. I wonder about true love. Does it exsist? I am in a relationship now for 6 years and although we have had our ups and downs we seem to always be willing to work things through and mayb that is what true love is. The willingness to always want to work things through. Although there is a problem. I after putting myself through school and raising my children and learning to take care of and support myself. I have achieved the goals I have sought out when I went through my divorce. Now after 6 years with this man I am ready to move things to the next level. That is to have a life together and have asked him if he would consider moving in and making a home together. I was devistated to find out that he seems to be content with just being the boyfriend and does not seem to want to bring our lives together. I am both hurt and confused. I suppose all this time it has been an unspoken understanding between us that the dy would come when we would pull a life together. my kids are grown, I have a son 12 who still lives with me, but for the most part I soon will have the empty nest. That does not botther me too much except that I had hoped that in this stage of my life I would be able to move toward a companion whom I would either marry or who I could share a life with full-time. I thought this man was it. I guess i assumed wrong. So I am not sure what to do. I do not want to live my life alone and do hope for a partner to share my life with someday. Any comment or feed back on my situation would be appreciated, since I am at this moment in a tate of confusion.