Anwar White tells single moms to rediscover who they were before parenthood. Start by going back to activities and interests you had before kids, then you can show up as yourself in dating instead of just as a parent.
Jim says advice for mothers getting back into the dating field.
This is gonna sound really bad, girl, but I'm gonna need you to take off your mother hat. Put on your woman hat. When we're a parent, and I've been there too, girl, we can lose our identity and we don't know who the hell we are outside of being a parent, a mother.
You're gonna have to figure out who the hell you are. If mother was not attached to you. You're gonna have to find yourself first and foremost. Meaning you gotta start doing the things that you like to do when. Before you had kids and even when you were a little kid because it's really weird that oftentimes because you're the parent, you have to be the responsible one 24, 7. That it takes away from being.
Like the fun, playful, joyous little girl that used to do random cartwheels. You have to find that, and then you want to start bringing that to your dating life. Because dating is about being light, fun and playful. If you're serious, mother all the time, girl, nobody wants to date mother. They want to date woman. There's a difference.