I hope you continue to give her the needed break once a week or so. I promise you, it will make all the difference in the long haul. She will appreciate you tons for it. Being a SAHM can make you batshit crazy, especially when the kid is toddler age, and you are singing "Inkle Inkle Ittle Stah" and watching the same video 293083483758345 times in a row.
Grats on your marriage!
kinghooter00 wrote:How can you say you will love a woman for life but not take responsibility for the other half of the commitment??? It doesn't make sense to me. They have to go hand in hand as far as i'm concerned. Otherwise it just seems like you don't really want the kid but have to in order to get the girl.
Regardless of what other's are saying here, I think that is a very commendable thing you are doing. They're right - you don't *have* to adopt her. Therein lies the truth of the depth of love you are willing to give, which is to take complete and utter full responsibility as though she were your own child.
From what some friends have told me in the past, the commitment you are making to her in adopting her will really mean something very special to her when she grows up. One of my friends and his sibling take it very personally that their stepmom did not adopt them (but their dad adopted her kid). However, another friend, who's stepdad did adopt him, feels a very special bond to him because of his dad's choice to make him his own.
If you are sure, then I say more power to you.
Personally, regardless of what were to happen with my marriage in the future, I would never allow anyone else to adopt my kids. That's just how I am though. Good luck.