It’s tough being a single parent. And in addition to sometimes feeling draining and overwhelming, it can feel “unfair” – like our parenting responsibilities are stealing precious time and energy from us that we’d prefer to spend on well…ourselves. You know – our careers, our social lives, our dating/love life, etc. “I didn’t sign up to be a [...]
Oh my God, I am so paranoid. I just can’t seem to escape it. Might as well go ahead and write on my tombstone: Loving mom,dedicated friend, Had sex with two different men in one weekend, Devoted her life to worrying about it. But now that a few days had past since last weekend’s promiscuity, [...]
Ohhhhh the irony. Over the past few years since divorcing I’ve dug deep and worked hard to rediscover my passion and ’fire.’ And I have said countless times, both to my myself and others, that “sometimes playing with fire doesn’t burn us, it awakens us.” A nice play on a metaphor I’d always thought… But this [...]
I never really understood – at a HEART level – what the expression “It takes a community to raise a child” meant. But now that I’m a divorced single parent, I ‘get it.’ I’ve needed to rely on other people’s help these past few years in raising my three kids: neighbors, friends, girlfriends’ husbands, [...]
There have been many times since I got divorced that I questioned how smart my decision was to be a stay-at-home mom while married. Cause in leaving the workforce for seven years, I not only left a gap on my professional resume, it left a hole in my self-worth. And when I divorced, I felt so vulnerable [...]
It happened last weekend. My eight-year-old son asked if he could bike over to his friend’s place two blocks away. Right away I said no. What if they got hit by a car? What if some predator chased them down the residential streets? I wanted him within eye/ear sight. Just in case. But when I opened [...]
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