Newly Sinlge...

Yay for you, you are so lucky to have met such a wonderful man!
Blenheim is fairly small town, aye? I like the weather and the lifestyle here, but I HATE everyone knowing your biz! I'm not rom here, so i find the women regard me with a little suspision, because they don't know who I went out with at high school, or how rich my parents are. LOL!
I'm pleased you were able to make a fresh start somewhere else. Godd for you and Chloe, you are very lucky. I hope baby comes today for you!

That's only because you were a "local", not one of the many summer visiters...

I lived in both Blenheim (Mar to Oct 2000) and Picton (Oct 2000 to Feb 2001) for a short time.

Hahaha my step-grandmother moved to Waikawa Bay a couple of years ago and by gosh did she get into the small town gossip circle pretty fast!

Last time I went to the golf club with her I could hear her whispering to my Poppa "ooh, now look at Shirley D, she looks like she's put on a bit of weight... [Oh Hiiii Shirley, lovely to see you! You look great!]"
I remember sitting at a table waiting for Margo to finish a hole and some ladies sat with me. I asked them if they knew her and they almost said some horrible things until I saved them by admitting I was her granddaughter. Obviously they are all the same. Old ladies with nothing better to do that gossip behind each others' backs.

I'm just glad my Poppa isn't like that. He just ignores Margo! hehe

hey gotta say its not just old ladies - i lived in a military camp for 4 yearas OMG!!!!if you happen to look at another guy i swear within no time the whole camp is talking about how you are sleeping with him and his 5 mates. also if anything does happen eg someone does catch their other half cheating ( which by the way is rampant in the defence force sorry to any1 who is with defence on here) it spreads like wildfire - no respect for ppls feelings.

I completely agree with you, Annie! Kiya's biological father is in the airforce, I met him while I was working as a bartender at Woodbourne. He was seconded to the navy and moved to Auckland, then a month later I moved to Picton for a different job. We continued our relationship, long distance. When I found out I was pregnant, he freaked! I haven't talked to him since Kiya was 6 weeks old, and he's never met her.

I met Nathaniel when Kiya was 6 months old. He's the only "daddy" she has ever known, and she adores him. Nathaniel is going to adopt Kiya when we can get it organised.

Childish is a bit of an understatement! I found out I was pregnant on his 28th birthday, a month after I turned 20. I rung him and said "Happy Birthday! Sit down..." His immediate response was "Is it mine?" followed by "Are you going to get an abortion?". If we'd been face to face instead of talking over the phone, I would have slapped him! At that time, we thought I was about 13 weeks along, so I told him where to put his suggestions and that I was too far along for an abortion anyway. He had the nerve to ring me back a couple of days later telling me that I could have an abortion right up to 20 weeks, and that he'd done all this research and that women who had abortions didn't regret them! I hung up on him.

Our relationship ended a month later with him telling me he did not find me attractive now that I was pregnant (around 25 weeks along by that stage!) and that he did not want a girlfriend who was pregnant or a single mum - never mind his contribution to the situation!

I had a few hangups about my pregnant body after that... this time round, Nathaniel couldn't get enough of looking at me, and was constantly telling me how good I looked to him - which helped me get over them!

What pigs those 2 are, you are both better off without them.
I had similar probs with airforce women, seemed every bloke was fair game, married, "committed" or not, very "blokey" chicks. Sorry if I have cause any offence by generalising like that!

its just defence force for you really, all over the world from what i gather too. can tell you now no more defence guys for me!!!!!! military chicks can be hard to get to know cos they quite territorial bout "their boys" and dont like any new chikcs!!! although i do have some great army chick mates but mostly not interested in them as friends dont trust most of them to be honest