Single Dads Support Group
This community is dedicated to fathers who are going through the parenting process alone or without the support of a spouse. Single parenthood is often opted for by the parent (as in divorce, adoption, artificial insemination, surrogate motherhood, or extramarital pregnancy), or an unforeseeable occurrence (as in the death of one parent or abandonment by one parent).
I am new to this community and I need help finding something. I am a single dad, but my wife died from cancer in January. I have looked around for help with this situation and have not found one. I am a member of the widows and widowers forum, but that is more about me and how I deal with the loss. Most of the topics here are dealing with divorce, and unfortunately, don't address my situation. Any help would be appreciated.
If you state your question to seek advice, someone may not be in the same situation, but, if it has to do with raising a child as a single father, I'm sure someone here would be able to offer you the advice you're seeking.
Now, if it's more in line to how to deal with the child's questions about their mother's passing, perhaps a family counselor would be best in order there.
Historically, the care and feeding of children fall to mom, and our job is to fund the enterprise and drop by for dinner every now and then. Maybe this is how things rolled in your house. In a good marriage, this works pretty well.
Most of us can relate to you waking up one day and realizing that breakfast is now all on you. Ditto lunch and dinner. Maybe you couldn't find which cabinet hiding the cereal on that first morning, hence the Fritos.
Regardless of the circumstances that made us single dads, we do have challenges in common. This group does tend to focus on our particular circumstances a bit, but that's mostly because we've had to fight a battle to be fathers to our own children. Nevertheless, please feel welcome to post any question or comment regarding your current struggles. I think many of us would be happy to focus less on our individual wars, and more on the reasons for which we fight them.