Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:52
Subject: When can you call yourself a single mother?
Re-direct your ire towards your spouse or figure out how to get more free time. Hey, maybe ask her for advice since she has it so good.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:48
Subject: When can you call yourself a single mother?
Let it go. None of it will matter when your kids are in college - even high school it stops being a mom pity party.
You can quietly unfollow her social media pity party and stay friends if you like.
You can quietly unfollow her social media pity party and stay friends if you like.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:48
Subject: When can you call yourself a single mother?
it’s obnoxious. I have 80% custody and wouldn’t call myself a single mother.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:47
Subject: When can you call yourself a single mother?
This kind of irritation is usually very informative -- your brain is telling you that you are envious. You need to talk to your husband and get some more free time for yourself.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:46
Subject: When can you call yourself a single mother?
Anonymous wrote:When the father has minimal custody (like over the summer or a few times per year or less) and doesn't really help financially. Otherwise you are a coparent. Hell, "single parenting" 50% of the time sounds like a freakin' vacation compared to my life. I fantasize about it often.
You have a full other human in your house and you think she has it easier?
Let me guess “mental load”?
Too controlling?
Go to the gym girl and work that out the kids will be fine alone with dad.
Queue the bemoaning … but they won’t get veggies with dinner trooe.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:44
Subject: Re:When can you call yourself a single mother?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Get over it.
Analyze why this matters to you.
I was pretty clear, she gets more free time in a week then I get in two months yet she’s adopted the persona of a beleaguered single mom doing it all on her own. I’ve noticed others do it as well.
I was raised by a single mom, my father removed himself to the other side of the country, I watched her work two jobs and completely forgo a social life to keep a roof over our heads, my mother was a single mother. My friend is a part-timer at best but likes to play the part. that’s what bothers me.
So rich single moms with a nanny are NOT single moms?
You have a chip on your shoulder about this one person, figure out why. It will help with your mental health.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:43
Subject: Re:When can you call yourself a single mother?
You should get divorced since you envy the life so much.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:41
Subject: When can you call yourself a single mother?
Your mom had it worse, but that doesn't mean this friend doesn't struggle. Let go of that resentment.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:39
Subject: Re:When can you call yourself a single mother?
I know someone who says this with similar setup and I definitely notice. I agree the correct term would be you are coparenting.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:37
Subject: When can you call yourself a single mother?
When the father has minimal custody (like over the summer or a few times per year or less) and doesn't really help financially. Otherwise you are a coparent. Hell, "single parenting" 50% of the time sounds like a freakin' vacation compared to my life. I fantasize about it often.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:30
Subject: When can you call yourself a single mother?
Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who often talks about how hard it is to be a single mom, her Instagram and Facebook posts talk about the work involved in raising a child on her own.
However, she has her child no more than three or four days a week, she has 50-50 custody with her ex who is very involved in the child’s life and often has him four or five days a week due to sports logistics etc.
She is single, she is a mom, but she has more free time in a week then I get in two months.
Just a rant.
So...you are married but don't share childcare duties equally with your spouse? And this is this other woman's (your "friend") problem?
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:26
Subject: Re:When can you call yourself a single mother?
Anonymous wrote:Get over it.
Analyze why this matters to you.
I was pretty clear, she gets more free time in a week then I get in two months yet she’s adopted the persona of a beleaguered single mom doing it all on her own. I’ve noticed others do it as well.
I was raised by a single mom, my father removed himself to the other side of the country, I watched her work two jobs and completely forgo a social life to keep a roof over our heads, my mother was a single mother. My friend is a part-timer at best but likes to play the part. that’s what bothers me.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:22
Subject: Re:When can you call yourself a single mother?
Single by choice is the terminology for no father involved.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:22
Subject: Re:When can you call yourself a single mother?
Get over it.
Analyze why this matters to you.
Analyze why this matters to you.
Anonymous
10/18/2024 10:21
Subject: When can you call yourself a single mother?
I have a friend who often talks about how hard it is to be a single mom, her Instagram and Facebook posts talk about the work involved in raising a child on her own.
However, she has her child no more than three or four days a week, she has 50-50 custody with her ex who is very involved in the child’s life and often has him four or five days a week due to sports logistics etc.
She is single, she is a mom, but she has more free time in a week then I get in two months.
Just a rant.
However, she has her child no more than three or four days a week, she has 50-50 custody with her ex who is very involved in the child’s life and often has him four or five days a week due to sports logistics etc.
She is single, she is a mom, but she has more free time in a week then I get in two months.
Just a rant.