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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If someone is parenting alone most of the time whether it is due to divorce, military deployment, parent working, deceased other parent, ill other parent, etc, as a group, those people are dealing with similar issues.  Period. I'm not talking about divorced where both parents are involved or parents work but are in town. If one parent is doing the majority of homework, child raising, decision making, discipline, chauffeuring, household stuff, holidays, etc alone...yes, you relate on some level to the same issues. [/quote]

Clearly someone who is not single wrote the above. NP and nooooo -- this is what partnered parents don't understand. You don't know my life just because you have the logistical challenges of doing 100% of the work sometimes. You don't get it, and that's ok, but why do you keep insisting that you DO get it when the single folks tell you you don't?

Does the woman above who has kids who need to be in different places at the same time have the benefit of her husband's paycheck? When her son broke his arm, if he needed surgery and there were two options, could she talk that through with the child's father, who is equally invested in a good outcome? When she's having a hard week, does she know that although she might do 95% of the parenting work at her house, three Saturdays from now her husband will be home and she'll get a tiny break, even if it's just an hour? I don't have any of that. And I'm not complaining but don't tell me you can relate.[/quote]

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