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momx3a
momx3a
As I sit here feeling horrible I've again focused on the fact I have no family besides my children. No spouse, no siblings, my mother is passed... I have relatives but not really family... My father is alive and he and his wife live about 8 blocks from me drives by house often yet I have seen him twice n 9 months...that's correct TWICE in 9 months. I talked to him on the phone recently and he didn't even know his only blood grandson is a senior...

I've recently lost the closest thing I had to a sister, my best friend of many years. She chose to betray me saying numerous bad things about me and turning my then fiancee against me to the point of threats..

I'm empty and lost..I want to be and feel loved..I want a normal life for ky kids.

I hate this feeling..I hate my life
chelle37
chelle37
I'm so sorry you're going through this. It's hard to not have family, and to have lost your best friend. I hope that in time you have more people in your life you're close to. I don't have much for family that I'm close to but I have friends that i consider like family. Hang in there, things can get better. ((hugs))
deleted_user
deleted_user
So sorry you are going through this. My mom passed in 08, all of my family lives in other states also, so like you, we have no close family. Christmas comes and goes and no cards or presents from their dad or grandparents from his side.

My kids and I have become so much closer, we talk a lot more. I know it may not seem like it, but you have a lot by having the kids, and they have so very much more by having a mom who loves them so much. So many kids don't even have that, they are wards of the state or runaways. So in that they and you are so very rich in the love you have for each other.

The kids and I have the "traditional Thanksgiving waffle" now as we call it. We go to the Waffle House and have a plain meal, but the conversation is great, and we talk to the people working. After, we leave a rather gracious tip for the server as a holiday gift, it has become a family tradition. It is also something the kids really remember now that they are older.

Best of luck, if you ever need to chat with another single mom, alone, just let me know.
deleted_user
deleted_user
BTW, I have a "friend" whom I hardly hear from any more. When ever her family is coming into town, she spends days upon days, complaining about the cleaning, dealing with everyone and the money, then the cleaning again, and yes her kids are right there to hear it. Then the next week there would be all these smiling pictures on Facebook, but I knew all the complaining behind those smiles. So, because a person has family, does not mean they are happy, they just feel compelled to do talk to them, because one day, they may get something.

My point being, just because one has the family, does not mean they are happy or normal.