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Originally Posted By yrand

I talked with the adoption facilitator that I took classes
from recently and she said that the committee was probaly
concerned about my partners committment to the relationship etc. Who ever really knows about any relationship marriage or
not? All I know is we've been together for four years and I
moved from California to be with him because he had small
children and his first committment we felt was to them. By the same token as a single (unmarried) woman my committment would be to my girls and since he is willing to fill the father role what's the issue? In Colorado she tells me its considered common-law after one night with intent and I laughed as we've had many more nights than that together! The bottom line is what is better me a mature woman in a committed relationship or a single mother with a different man in and out every week? An unmarried couple like us or my
stepfather being married for ten years to my mother without
ever adopting us then splitting us all up after she died?