A single mom recently wrote to us at Singlemommyhood to let us know that her ex-husband is getting remarried.
Unfortunately, this mom got the wedding news second hand — from her daughter:
“My eight-year-old daughter came home from her dad’s this weekend and announced, ‘Daddy is getting married!’”
“I didn’t even know that he had a girlfriend!” CoastalGal99 wrote to us.
“My daughter explained that she was introduced to ‘Daddy’s new wife.’ Then she asked me if she should call her ‘Mommy, too.”
Have you ever received news like this second hand?
Has your ex gotten remarried? Have you recently gotten similar news?
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My ex and I were officially divorced in January of 2009, and he married his gf on Sweetest Day, with no advance notice to me or our six-year-old daughter. I found out about the marriage through the grapevine, and when I asked him why he didn’t tell me, he said he didn’t know how, since he didn’t think I’d be too happy about it. (He had just told me in June of 2009 that he was nowhere near making that sort of commitment to someone again, then they get married that October??) He actually met me at our daughter’s school for conferences, and admitted that he was going to take the ring off so I wouldn’t see it! What a schmuck.
The few times we’ve talked about the new Mrs. (who doesn’t want him to have anything to do with me or our daughter!) he is embarassed and apologetic.
Since then he’s also STILL talking about us getting back together and being a family again! Unbelievable. The kicker is that our daughter still doesn’t know that he’s remarried. She’s never met her and he never brings her around the new Mrs. When I’ve questioned this, he tells me that it probably won’t last long, so our daughter doesn’t ever need to know!
I have moved on, with someone much more sane (and honest, and loyal, and moral), so while it bothered me at first that he remarried, I realize that I am so much better off.
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