A question: Assuming the situation once again becomes favorable to males for marriage, would you ever consider marrying a widow who already had a child for the purpose of having additional children and raising the child, or if you can't have children for the purpose of raising her son as your own?
I have no interest in single mothers, but widows and their children are a case worth considering, even if to reject; so, I pose this question to you as well.
@DoubleD
These men whisper of love, of companionship, yet their choices betray a masochism I scarce comprehend. To court a single mother—be she widowed or divorced—is to embrace a burden clad in the guise of virtue. And what distinction do they draw, these fools, between the widow and the cast-off bride? None exists worthy of note.
@DoubleD
A widow, they say, is ennobled by tragedy, her solitude thrust upon her by fate’s cruel hand. A divorced woman, they sneer, bears the stain of her own failure, her union sundered by choice or weakness. Yet I see through this veneer of judgment, this petty moral posturing. A single mother is a single mother still—her spawn cling to her skirts, her resources sapped, her spirit tethered to a past she cannot unmake.
@DoubleD
The method of her solitude matters not; the weight of her existence remains unchanged. Whether her mate lies cold in the earth or walks free among the living, the yoke she bears is the same—a chain forged not of iron, but of obligation and regret.
@DoubleD
And what man, possessed of reason, would willingly bind himself to such a creature? To step into the shadow of another’s legacy, to shoulder the detritus of a life not his own? The widow offers no purity, the divorcee no absolution—both are marred by the same indelible truth: they are no longer whole, no longer free. Their children, those mewling leeches, drain time, gold, and vitality, leaving naught but scraps for the suitor foolish enough to linger
