‘Suddenly the head of a married schoolyard father appeared on Tinder’

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Post-divorce dating isn’t cat piss, especially if your rounds on Tinder are just confirming: nothing on dating apps is what it seems.

Cheyenne (31), mother of Myra (6) and Tabitha (4):

“More than a year after the breakup with the father of my children, my friends thought it was enough. That he had started a new family elsewhere, oh well. That I got along just fine with my children: great. But now it was time for me, they judged. And so, unsolicited, but thank God in my presence, they created a profile for me on Tinder.

Nothing is what it seems

With a bottle of chardonnay we swiped through the file that was presented to me, screeching with laughter. Men with carp. Men with pimped cars. Men with their mothers. Or worse: with their children. I was about to uninstall the entire app again when the head of a schoolyard father appeared. A married schoolyard father, that is; my daughters used to play with his. “Like him!” screamed a friend. But I wasn’t in the mood for such a fuss. Whether he ever liked me I will never know, but that nothing on Tinder is what it seems was confirmed to me.”

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Arrange in rows of three

Melek (36), mother Xavi (7):

“My divorce was not even final when it was already sung in the schoolyard that I was single. “Shall I explain to you in another way what my nutrition is all about?” asked the married father with an orthomolecular background who I found interesting. ‘On Sundays we are always with some fathers at the playground behind the football club’, suggested another. A third I came across on a dating app, another suggested to make a conversion for my central heating boiler. It seemed like half the schoolyard was queuing up without anyone knowing if I was single. At least I was sure half of those dads weren’t.

“It was like half the schoolyard was queuing up without anyone knowing if I was single”

When I jokingly set up my Facebook page that I was in a relationship, it suddenly went silent. “Congratulations,” said the CV conversion father, looking down at the ground. The rest shrouded in silence.”

This article appears in Kek Mama 09-2022.

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