What the...?

Fire_Fox

HeadAboveWater wrote: »

What am I?

I'm not single.

I'm not a parent.

I live with my OH.

My OH has children.

I'm not their step mum.

IMO you would start a thread on relationship issues on the new Couples board and issues relating to your partner's children or your parents on the old Families board (new name is too long!).

Just thinking perhaps they changed the name from 'Marriage ..' so it was more inclusive to same sex couples. :think:

Person_one

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I wonder why they didn't just go with a 'Pregnancy & Children' and a 'Relationship' board instead? That way if your question was specific to pregnancy/kids there would be somewhere obvious to post it and the other board wouldn't distinguish between someone's marital or co-habiting status. As it is, I can't imagine that Grandparents would be particularly interested in pregnancy threads....yet they're now shoved in with them.

'Families' is fine though, it covers everything, and its really really easy to not read threads you aren't interested in. It wasn't just relationships.

The other board I tend to read is DT and literally anything can come up on there, it works just fine (well, in its own way!) without having to split off into loads of sub-categories.

Fire_Fox

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I wonder why they didn't just go with a 'Pregnancy & Children' and a 'Relationship' board instead? That way if your question was specific to pregnancy/kids there would be somewhere obvious to post it and the other board wouldn't distinguish between someone's marital or co-habiting status. As it is, I can't imagine that Grandparents would be particularly interested in pregnancy threads....yet they're now shoved in with them.

Agree grandparents is a strange bedfellow for TTC and the like. Then where would singles issues go? I like SandC's idea about a Friendship board, maybe that should come in here with Singletons, that doesn't have a home either and obviously us singles are friendly.

System

Am i not alllowed to look on here now... Being not single and all!

I really don't see why it needed dividing the way it did, i preferred having all the posts together, if i didnt want to read something i just glossed over it. Now i'm going to end up having to check over 3/4 forums than just one :mad:

shegirl

Just spotted this.!!!!!! MSE??!?!?!?!

Exactly why on earth would us single folk need a board dedicated to us?

elsien

I just hate the word singleton. Always misread it as simpleton.
I'd like to come back out of my ghetto now please.

shegirl

elsien wrote: »

I just hate the word singleton. Always misread it as simpleton.
I'd like to come back out of my ghetto now please.

Oh,elsien,your misreading makes you sound like a singleton :D

Devils_Custard

elsien wrote: »

I just hate the word singleton. Always misread it as simpleton.
I'd like to come back out of my ghetto now please.

I prefer simpleton to singleton... less social stigma.:D:D:D

I'll stay on this forum. Unloved... unwanted... a social outcast... Must stop typing, the tears from my isolation are ruining my keyboard.... And I'll make sure I'll not taint all the boards of the happy people in their relationships. I didn't know that singletoness was catching.

Hang on. I've just had a thought. Do you think that we are corrupting their boards with our talk of watching what we want on the tv, eating what we want and generally having a nice time.:D

elsien

Shout clear, shout loud
I'm simple and I'm proud!

shegirl

Devils_Custard wrote: »

I prefer simpleton to singleton... less social stigma.:D:D:D

I'll stay on this forum. Unloved... unwanted... a social outcast... Must stop typing, the tears from my isolation are ruining my keyboard.... And I'll make sure I'll not taint all the boards of the happy people in their relationships. I didn't know that singletoness was catching.

Hang on. I've just had a thought. Do you think that we are corrupting their boards with our talk of watching what we want on the tv, eating what we want and generally having a nice time.:D

Haha!! Yeah.Don't want to go showing off our delight at having freedom