This is what I wish I had...
My two oldest kids' mom and I, "broke up" in July 2019. But we lived together until March 2020, and in that 8-month span we still had some intimacy. Not a lot, but there were obvious feelings still lingering and we still did things together...
In December 2019 she asked me if I was okay if we started seeing other people. In hindsight if yall "broke up" in July, you wouldn't ask for permission to see other people in December, but like I said there was still involvement with us...
In January 2020, she started seeing this guy. Told me when she did, but started missing days at home. I thought I could handle it. I couldn't. And our actual BREAK-UP, when I moved out, was March 2020...
That guy is now her fiance since January, corny nikka proposed on their 3-year anniversary

. Nah I'm clowning, as far as I can tell he's a decent dude, I have some slight issues with things he's done but my daughters love him. She introduced my girls to him quite early, like by March he'd already met them unbeknownst to me at the time, which was uncomfortable. But 3 years later it's still that same guy, not a revolving door of men around them, and that means something...
The girls have met two women I've dated since their mom and I separated 3 years ago, one chick it wasn't even serious with, and the woman who became my second baby mama. And in hindsight I introduced them too soon in both cases...
My youngest girl's mom and I started dating Thanksgiving 2020. I met her kids a month later, at Christmas. My ex and I had a verbal breakup beginning December 29 just past, but we kept some shyt open until yesterday. I view March 2023 as when we've officially broken up. She's had another man in the home with them since right around February 1 (maybe off a day or two either way), and I have no clue when they met him but it's a large chance it was prior to February 1...
We "broke up" December 29. February 1 she moves another man in. That's too soon to me, that man is around my daughter in basically a month...
My second BM has a pattern though. I met her kids like 2 weeks after she put her previous guy out Christmas 2020. Started kicking it with her bit I didn't move in until July 2021. I left out April 2022...
Her sons are 6 and 7. The guy who is around now, is now the FIFTH guy who has been around them, that I know of. In 6 and 7 years. Could be more but I know 5 for sure---->her baby daddy; she and her high school sweetheart tried to rekindle the old flame after the relationship with baby daddy ended; the guy before me; me; and now the brother who moved in on February 1...
That's alot. Our daughter is only 18 months and she's already brought a second man around her, that's two guys in less than two years...
I question her judgement and decision making for alota reasons, this is one of them. Five guys by her sons' 6th and 7th years of life...
For me, I'm going to be very cautious with who I bring to the girls going forward. Granted the relationship with me and their sister's mom lasted over 2 years but the next woman I introduce to either of my 3 girls, I'm going to make sure she has staying power...