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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two children- one who will enter school in the fall and another who will be in daycare for 3 more years. I'd like to stay in my current neighborhood, but renting a 2 BR apartment is hard to find under 2,000 per month and that will eat up half of my take home pay. I haven't filed for divorce yet because I'm paralyzed due to the financial implications.

Where do folks live?

Single parents, how do you do it?

What support is out there, especially for women?

Because I know people will ask, my husband is unwilling to reconcile and I've been asking for years for him to go to counseling, alone or together, discuss emotions, etc, and he won't/can't. The strain of living with him is breaking me physically and I need to accept our reality.
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I'm in a very similar situation. It is absolutely the worst, I didn't "want" this either (H unwilling to reconcile), but we soldier on. I've asked around, and Silver Spring seems to be the best bet to get a decent elementary school.

The hardest part IMO is identifying all the things you will have to do without. I asked on another thread about kids sharing a room and got a lot of feedback of, it's fine for the immediate but doesn't really work. It's interesting (and good) that people have been more supportive of the idea here.

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