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Single mom here, with only two under 7 years old. The struggle is real for some of us. 
She's absolutely delusional. Her children are adults so it’s now time to do adult things. And stop talking about her divorce that was almost 5 years ago. Her marriage was over long before it was finalized, she and him both admit that in several pod casts. 
Jen truly doesn’t want or need a husband and she knows it. She needs and wants a servant. 
And someone please explain how all of these adult children have no real jobs and can all go on a lavish week extended family vacation? Is Tyler with them? How can he stand being around all of that chaos. And her beloved new DIL, bless her. [/quote]

"It is not the still talking about the effect the divorce has on her life that is irritating.  I was a child of divorce.  The reprocussions were life long.  To this day, my relationship with my dad is gatekept by a stepmother who is not an awful person, but definitely has a time limit on how long her husband's kids from his first marriage can be tolerated."

As an adult, I experienced and even deeper grief that cut so deep, after five years I was just starting to see some sunlight.

But to speak of all of that in the same breath as an extended ski vacation, while putting herself on the same level of women who are raising children alone is irritating.  And she is not really a single parent - the kids have another very involved parent from the sounds of it.  She is just no longer parenting with her partner, but she is not doing it by herself.  More like tag teaming.

I am sure, at the core of it, she is lonely for her partner who raised these kids with her, and can share fully in the progression of maturity, or lack there of.  The person who experienced this whole life with her, that she is still clinging to.  That has to hurt deeply.  But she could just say that.  And I read one 2023 blogish entry where she did express that to some extent.  There is not need to martyr herself by co-opting the experience of single moms who are barely hanging on.[/quote]

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