Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 27 year old woman and I have 3 children by my ex-boyfriend. I say ex, because we just broke up on election day. We had been together for 9 years and started a family together, but things started going downhill recently. A few years ago, we moved to a new city and we both had great jobs and we opened a small business together. We were finally getting the financial freedom that we needed for our family so I thought it was the perfect time for us to get married.................