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What is the most difficult thing about being a single parent?
Posted on 04/09/08, 02:08 pm
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Reply #21 06/19/08 4:44pm
I'm a single mom to an awsome eight year old boy.There are alot of hard things about being a single parent. Yes it's hard to pay for everything on your own. I know I work 2 full time jobs. I beleive the question was, what is the hardest thing? Honestly, I think it's the single part. Being a mom easy, being single sucks. I get lonely and I look for adult compainship. I would love to come home and talk about the stresses of the day, over with someone. Ask an eight year old for advice? lol He'll tell ya anything you want to hear. As long as he get's a toy in return. I would love a partner.Of coarse I'm talking about a good guy. My son fills my life with alot of wonderful things. I am grateful for him and don't regret what I have with him. Though it sure would be nice to have someone there. -
Reply #22 06/25/08 3:22am
The aloneness in decision making. Having no one for feedback. The uncertainty of making ends meet each month. Being so tired....feeling alone. -
Reply #23 06/26/08 11:00pm
I am a newly single mom of two little girls and I am struggling soo hard at being myself with them Financially, mentally, and physically I just don't know how I am ever going to overcome this pain and hurt that he has done to me. -
Reply #24 07/11/08 9:50pm
I find the hardest thing is because I have to work full time to support us I miss out on some of the school activities that she would like me to come to. I do make a point of being there every year for sports day but other than that it's hard to get time off all the time - that I feel very guilty over. I also find it hard to get time to myself as her father has very little to do with her and I would dearly love to have a Saturday night with a bottle of wine, block of chocolate and a chick flick all to myself!!! Is that selfish? -
Reply #25 07/13/08 3:26am
making the right choices... because everything affects him even if he is not directly involved... i have made somw really crappy choices and i find my self in a whole i cant get out of... i am trying to grow in my faith and seek God during this time it's just so HARD! -
Reply #26 08/07/08 8:24am
having been a single mom for 9 yrs now, it changes as to what is the hardest, right now the hardest thing is dealing with my ex-husbands new wife who feels that her husband is the best man on the face of the earth and that I "ask" for to much when I ask for something besides the child support check...ya know, its to much to ask for respect, to much to ask for him to pay the support on time, to much to ask for him to take his sons to an appointment...i guess you get the point. -
Reply #27 08/13/08 1:41am
i think the hardest thing about being a single parent is going it alone and being pregnant while i do everything. it gets frustrating. -
Reply #28 09/21/08 9:45pm
I'm so tired. I'm constantly second guessing myself, and over-analyzing everything I do, convinced that when I screw up, my child will become a serial-killer/homeless/little-voice-in-their-head-hearing reprobate. I want to be the perfect mom, and I want a nap. -
Reply #29 09/22/08 4:30pm
For me the hardest thing about being a single parent is the fact that I am completely on my own. My parents are in Alaska and dont want anything to do with me, my siblings are dead, and my xbf is going to live in London. -
Reply #30 09/28/08 2:34am
I think the hardest thing for me about being a single mom is the lack of support. I just don't have it. I didn't choose to be a single mom and I feel like I'm constantly judged for it. I am a wonderful mother. I just wish when people such as her paternal grandmother offer help or whatever they'd actually mean it instead of just going through the motions.
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