Mom, There's a Man in the Kitchen and He's Wearing Your Robe: The Single Mom's Guide to Dating Well Without Parenting Poorly

by Ellie Slott Fisher

Embarking on the dating scene can be a fun though sometimes daunting prospect for any single woman. But for the more than 10 million single women in the U.S. with children at home, dating is a much more complicated matter. Whether uncoupled through divorce or death, single moms face a wide range of When will I be ready to date and how do I start? When-and what-should I tell the kids? What happens if I love the guy and the kids hate him? In Mom, There's a Man in the Kitchen and He's Wearing Your Robe , Ellie Slott Fisher, a once-widowed, once-divorced single mother of two, speaks with refreshing candor about balancing dating and parenting. Drawing upon her own experience, the stories of many other women, and the advice of family psychologists, Fisher offers encouragement, strategies, and a healthy dose of humor for the single-but-looking mom-from how to meet men in the first place to when to introduce your date to the kids, from when and where to work sex into the equation to how to talk to your dating teenagers without looking like a hypocrite. Practical, funny, and hopeful, this is the one guide single moms need before jumping into the murky waters of the dating pool.

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2004

Reviews

[Juan Alvarado Valdivia · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you're a Stepford-Wife-single-mother type with slight to moderate money-grubbing tendencies, this book might be for you. Lots of practical advice but I felt like this author did little to relate to the thousands of single moms who struggle to pay bills and don't have the luxury of owning a house. Fisher's writing rings with the effortless clarity of a long-time journalist. I read this book for research but these were my observations.

[Lisa Dekis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ellie started the conversation about the plain fact that single moms DO want to "date". The topic was just exiting the big taboo that had mom's in Mom jeans, glasses, roots grown in and "satisfied" with a good latte. Don't get me wrong. I can be seen with yoga pants on all weekend. Point being - in '05 Ellie's fresh conversation / stories about single-mom was brilliant.
Lisa
PS Oh don't tell anyone, but I am one of the characters in this story. Check me, I mean it out!
Hi Ellie!!! Go ROSEMONT!