Offer Advice about Expat Relationships. The singles' life is different than I experienced in the US. Girls are relatively easy to meet and down to earth. You get what you see. They "size you up" through conversation, on the spot, not the other way around. I had to learn new conversation skills: how to take an interest in the people I was talking to; how not to brag about myself, and how to keep the conversation focused on important things, not just work. Danes learn the art of communication at an early age and really are quite good at getting to know people this way.
Also, the girls here are generally pretty strong and they make a lot of the relationship decisions that guys in the US maybe used to, especially regarding sex and intimacy. No children. Mine are all in the US. My daughter came here when she was 15 for a year. It was quite a shock for her, particularly the freedom teens have and their casual attitude towards sex.
But she adjusted well. My social life has never involved meeting ex pats. Most of my friends - girls and guys who were friends with them - I met while I was dating. In Denmark, serial monogomy combined with casual attitudes about sex, seem to be the major practices from the early teens on, so it's quite easy to meet quite a few people in a romantic - intimate context. Inter-cultural relationships are hard to manage, because each person comes at it with a different cultural perspective about the functions that romantic relationships should perform and how two people fit into the right roles to do this.
I got plenty of experience learning how not to treat a Danish woman, before I found "a keeper" - one who would keep me. I think, more than anything else, I have learned how important it is to respect your partner, here, and how quickly she will leave you, if you don't.
Not a single parent, but I would say that it is much much easier to be a single parent in Denmark than in the US. First of all, marriage is not that popular here and relationships fail at a pretty high rate, anyway, so there are relatively many more single mothers here than in the US.
